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We produced the following dissemination materials:

• Flyers
• Ecological pens
• Posters
• Bookmarks (in Portuguese and English)
• Stickers

Your collaboration to disseminate Arquivo.pt is essential for this service to become useful to an increasing amount people.

Ask us for materials to disseminate Arquivo.pt at your institution or event. We will send it to you free of charge.

Thank you.

Know more:

• Dissemination materials
• Other forms of dissemination

The name given to this release was opportunely Fénix (Phoenix). 20 cases that originated the following improvements were resolved:

Informative site (sobre.arquivo.pt):

• Review and update of all content (152 pages in Portuguese and English);
• Reorganization of the Information Architecture;
• Fix functional and usability errors;
• Incoherence of graphical style.

Search and access (www.arquivo.pt):

• Interoperability improvements (e.g. URLs following the Wayback syntax, OpenSearch API fixes);
• Information updates;
• Error corrections on the user interface;
• Introductory video included on the homepage.

We inform that we migrated our open source project to GitHub: pwa_technologies where you can find more details about the Fénix version.

Comments and suggestions are most welcome!

The .EU domain is commonly used to reference sites related to Europe. The strategy adopted to archive the World Wide Web has been delegating the responsibility of each domain to the respective national archiving institutions. However, the .EU domain fails to fit in this model because it covers multiple nations. Thus, the preservation of .EU sites was not been yet assigned and undertaken by any institution.

RESAW is an European network that aims to create a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials (resaw.eu).

Arquivo.pt performed a first attempt to crawl and preserve web sites hosted under the .EU domain within the scope of RESAW activities. This first crawl began on the 21 November 2014 and finished on the 16 December 2014.

We performed 2 more crawls of the .EU domain. All the crawls were indexed and became searchable through Arquivo.pt one year after its finish date. Moreover, we made available a prototype that enables focused search over the .EU crawls which demonstrates the simplicity of creating search engines that targeted specific collections through the usage of the “collection” search parameter.

Collaborations with researchers interested on studying the collected web data sets or crawl logs are welcome.

To know more

• Prototype of focused search over the .EU crawls implemented using the search operator “collection”
• The Curious Case of Archiving .eu , chapter in book The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: The Case of National Web Domains
• Opportunities and challenges in collecting and studying national webs, (video, PDF)
• A first attempt to archive the .EU domain, technical report;
• Heritrix original crawl log (19,6 GB);
• Heritrix generated reports (21,5 MB);
• Analysis sheet generated using the Notebook Python library.

By following these recommendations, authors are contributing to enable the access and preservation of their contents for the future.

It is impossible to preserve the Web without the authors collaboration.

Read the recommendations.

The paper Trends in Web characteristics written by João Miranda and Daniel Gomes, was distinguished as the 2nd best paper presented at the 7th Latin American Web Congress.

The paper presents results on the evolution of Web characteristics, derived from the comparison of a crawl performed by the PWA in 2008 with previous studies.

• Slides of the presentation

RARC is a pioneer system being developed within the Portuguese Web Archive project. Its main goal is to enable Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to help preserve web contents for the future. Anyone can contribute to preserve the web, by providing a little amount of space to keep a backup of a small part of the archived data.

This version was successfully tested on the following distributions:

• Fedora 10, 11 (Gnome)
• Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 (Gnome)

Please contact us if you find that this version is compatible with other distributions or if you find any problem.

• Dowload rARC Linux version now.

RARC is a pioneer system being developed within the Portuguese Web Archive project. Its main goal is to enable Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to help preserve web contents for the future. Anyone can contribute to preserve the web, by providing a little amount of space to keep a backup of a small part of the archived data.

Please contact us if you find any problem.

• Dowload rARC Windows 7 version now.

rARC has now more than 130 contributors providing a total of 2 700 gigabytes.

The amount of disk space offered corresponds to the total disk space necessary to backup an archived copy of the Portuguese Web.

This beta version of the service includes 130 million contents of the Portuguese web archived between 1996 and 2007.

It enables advanced search options, such as, date range restrictions.

Please send us your comments and critiques. They are most welcome.

Search the past now!