Arquivo.pt in the Azores, May 2019

May 2, 2019February 22, 2019 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on May 2nd, 2019 at 01:49 pm

Jornadas de Computação Científica is an annual event on scientific computing. In 2019 it will be take place between the 6 and 8 of May, at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada.

The event is aimed at teachers, students, researchers and service providers in Higher Education institutions.

Sessions Arquivo.pt on May 6 from 14h30 to 18h00

14h30 – The Memory of the Web: a forgotten heritage?, Daniel Gomes
15h15 – Preservation of institutional Web sites, Ricardo Basílio

16h00 – Coffee break

16h30 – Recommendations for publishing information on the Web, Daniel Bicho
17h15 – Automatic access to Arquivo.pt (APIs), Fernando Melo
17h45 – A few words from our sponsor Huawei, Henrique Oliveira

The event also includes an Azorean dinner on May 7.

Registration is free but mandatory.

New version of Arquivo.pt (Image Search release)

August 9, 2024January 31, 2019 by admin

Last updated on August 9th, 2024 at 03:33 pm

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on December 27, 2018, called Image Search Release.

This new version has as main novelty, a new functionality of image search in Arquivo.pt.

Image Search

The Image Search is available at https://arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en.

At the moment it is a trial version, only available in the desktop version of Arquivo.pt.

The functionality allows not only to find images from the past preserved by Arquivo.pt but also to find the webpage from the past that contained the founded image.

With the Image Search, it is possible to:

visit the preserved page that contains the image
see the image
see details about the page and image preserved by Arquivo.pt
share the image on social media.

Arquivo.pt has also developed an advanced image search page for those who want to do more complex searches.

Advanced image search

The advanced search for images from Arquivo.pt is available at https://arquivo.pt/advancedImages.jsp?l=en.

Advanced image search allows you to:

search for terms
search for expressions
exclude certain words
limit search by dates
select the size of the images
select the file format of the images
enable / disable safe search filter
restrict the site where the image was found.

If you find any error Arquivo.pt, or if you have any suggestions please contact us.

More info

API for image search (beta)
Option “Report problem” available in all interfaces of Arquivo.pt
Fixed cross site scripting vulnerabilities
Added email sharing functionality on all mobile interfaces of Arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt and CLEOPATRA Project together in funding for PhD students

March 29, 2019January 29, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 02:12 pm

CLEOPATRA Project is announcing 15 fully-funded PhD students. Subjects include Semantic Web, natural language processing, digital humanities and social sciences, and many others.

Arquivo.pt is directly involved in three of the courses: Incentives design for hybrid multilingual information processing and analytics, in Southampton; National and transnational media coverage of European parliamentary elections, 2004-2014, London (United Kingdom); and NLP for under-resourced languages, in Zagreb, Croatia.

For more information about the courses, or for applications go to CLEOPATRA Project website.

Videos from Arquivo.pt Seminar in Tomar

March 29, 2019January 23, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 03:10 pm

The Arquivo.pt team held a training session at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar last October

Daniel Gomes, the manager of Arquivo.pt, and Fernando Melo and Daniel Bicho, from the development and technology team, presented the seminar “Arquivo.pt: pesquise páginas do passado!” (Arquivo.pt: search pages from the past!) to students of the Institute and other people interested in learning how to use the digital archives.

Click on the links below to watch Arquivo.pt team’s presentations (in Portuguese)

Arquivo.pt training sessions are free. Contact us to schedule a visit to your institution.

Arquivo.pt: new ways of searching the past (slides), by Daniel Gomes (in Portuguese).
How to publish information in order to be preserved (slides), by Daniel Bicho (in Portuguese).
Arquivo. API – interface for automatic access (slides), by Fernando Melo (in Portuguese).

Arquivo.pt 2019 Award: Submissions are open!

August 6, 2024January 16, 2019 by admin

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:19 pm

Submissions for Arquivo.pt Award 2019 are officially open! The deadline is May 3, at 1 pm (Lisbon time).

The three best works will receive a total of 15 000 euros.

Individual or group works on any subject are accepted. The only requirement is that they use Arquivo.pt as their main source of information.

Here’s how to apply: arquivo.pt/award2019

Good luck!

IT specialists to collaborate with Arquivo.pt

August 5, 2024January 15, 2019 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on August 5th, 2024 at 10:15 am

The ROSSIO Project- Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities has an open call for 2 positions to collaborate with Arquivo.pt.

Call is open until February 5th, 2019.

Check for application details at the links below.

1. Front-end developer

Main tasks

Middleware development;
Development of user interfaces;
Usability Experience quality control (UX).

Application details

2. Java/Linux specialist

Main tasks

Development of large-scale distributed computer systems;
Analysis, planning and operation of computer services;
Corrective and evolutive maintenance of software;
Interaction with scientific and technical communities to establish collaborations and identify requirements.

Application details

Arquivo.pt exhibition in Lisbon

March 29, 2019January 10, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 03:51 pm

Some of the pages archived by Arquivo.pt have taken to the streets this January. During the month of January, six iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history will be displayed in the lobby windows of the Secretaria-Geral da Educação e Ciência, at Avenida 5 de outubro, 107, in Lisbon.

The exhibition is open to the public all day long until the 31st January and shows examples of pages which, nowadays, can only be visited through Arquivo.pt, such as the result of the 1996 Presidential Elections in Portugal, the Expo’98 page, or the first home page of the RTP television network, published in 1998.

This exhibition is itinerant, so if you are interested in bringing it to your city or institution, please contact Arquivo.pt.

Exposição 05 de Outubro

EXPO’98: Twenty years by Arquivo.pt

July 15, 2022December 7, 2018 by admin

Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 01:23 pm

With the theme “ “Os Oceanos, Um Património para o Futuro” (“Oceans, a Heritage for the Future“), EXPO’98 took place in Lisbon, 1998.

Considered a turning point for Lisbon and Portugal, from May 2 to September 30, 1998, the event attracted around 11 million visitors. EXPO’98 also had as its purpose to highlight the 500 years of the Portuguese Discoveries.

The importance of EXPO’98 did not stop there:

It was a strategic project for the country and culminated with the regeneration of an area of about 340 hectares in the eastern part of the city, next to the Tagus River.
Attended by 146 countries and 14 international organizations.

EXPO’98 website preserved by Arquivo.pt

However, as in the digital world, much of the information disappears after a short time, only with Arquivo.pt you can even browse EXPO’98 page, serving as a historical and research base about the event.

A moment that Arquivo.pt keeps for the memory of those days not be lost and for future research about their impact on the lives of all Portuguese.

Travel through EXPO’98 with Arquivo.pt!

Examples of EXPO’98 pages preserved by Arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt celebrates the World Digital Preservation Day with free training

August 5, 2024October 26, 2018 by admin

Last updated on August 5th, 2024 at 04:56 pm

November 29 is the World Digital Preservation Day 2018 (#WDPD2018).

To celebrate the date, Arquivo.pt will offer a free training on Web Preservation. The objective of the training is to maximize users’ productivity in exploring the service.

A minimum of 10 participants is required. Registration is free.

The event will begin at 2:30 pm (see full schedule below), in the Pequeno Auditório located at FCT-FCCN (Avenida do Brasil, 101 – Lisbon).

Schedule

14:00 – Reception
14:30 – Opening session (video)
14:45 – Arquivo.pt: news and 2019 Award, by Daniel Gomes (video)
15:30 – “Conta-e Histórias”, Arquivo.pt 2018 Winner, by Ricardo Campos (video)
16:15 – Break
16:30 – Preservation of websites in Higher Education Libraries context, by Ricardo Basílio (video)
17h15 – FCCN services available to the Academic Community, by João Gomes
17:30 – Optional visit to the data center which hosts the servers of Arquivo.pt

Target Audience

Information professionals (e.g. librarians, archivists, and documentalists)
Website managers (e.g. Communication and Design bureaus)
Web content authors (e.g. bloggers)
Professors, students, and researchers interested in Digital Preservation

Photo gallery

Dia Mundial da Preservação Digital

João Gomes, Diretor da Área de Serviços Avançados

Dia Mundial da Preservação Digital no Arquivo.pt

New version of Arquivo.pt (WARC release)

October 18, 2018 by admin

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on October 16 called WARC Release.

This new version has as main novelty the support of textual indexing of web contents stored in the WARC format .

The document parsing library was also updated to use Apache-Tika.

Technical Details

Arquivo.pt has a new functionality in the reproduction of preserved pages that allows to access Technical Details about an archived page.

To do this, simply click on the circular icon with an “i”. Some playback metadata will be displayed on the page. Try it!

Report a bug

Arquivo.pt has added the function Report a Bug to its interfaces to facilitate the identification of problems with the help of the users.

To do so, simply click on the cockroach aka bug icon, which will forward you to a contact form already filled with the link to the page where the error occurred.

Report a Bug available clicking on the “bug icon”.

If you find any error, in Arquivo.pt please contact us.

More news

Arquivo.pt is now served through a secure connection, following the protocol HTTPS (https://arquivo.pt).
New logo of Arquivo.pt.
It has now become possible to insert multiple sites in advanced search.
Cross Site Scripting Security Vulnerabilities Fixed.
Fixed issues with indexing for playing back preserved pages (invalid CDXJ indexes).
Fixed problems in the application logs on the Archivo.pt servers.