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The paper A survey on web archiving initiatives, by Daniel Gomes, João Miranda and Miguel Costa, was presented at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011, in Berlin, Germany.

• Presentation slides
• Short video

The Portuguese Web Archive team has written over 72,000 lines of code to improve the tools provided by the Archive-access project.

The code is now available as a free open source project to be used and improved by the community.

• Portuguese Web Archive source code

The project for collaborative preservation named rARC started in 2007 within the Portuguese Web Archive.

Contributions:

• Successful proof of concept and project in production
• Master thesis of André Nogueira, Preservation of the Web through distributed large-scale replication, University of Lisbon
• Source code
• Page of the project

We thank all the contributors for their collaboration and support.

The presentation focused on the following points:

• Motivation for the Web archiving topic
• Portuguese Web Archive project status report
• Services available to the community

Find out more:

• See video (on Educast) (in Portuguese)
• Download presentation slides (PDF) (in Portuguese)
• Read the description of the presentation (in Portuguese)

The presentation focuses on the following points:

• What is usability?
• The Portuguese Web Archive
• Usability problems and development iterations
• Usability recommendations and user-centred design

Find out more:

• See video (on Educast) (in Portuguese)
• Download presentation slides (PDF) (in Portuguese)

• Search it now

Sample pages from the collection:

• Governing in Dialogue – message from the prime minister of Portugal in his official page in 1996
• Jacques Delors Information Centre – information on topics related to the European Union in 1997
• National Commission for the Commemoration of Portuguese Discoveries – information on the projects and activities of the Commission in 1997
• Expo 98 opening – news report in Expresso newspaper on the preparations for the opening of the exhibition in 1998 (in Portuguese)
• Expo 98 – with photographs and descriptions of points of interest of the exhibition in 1998 (in Portuguese)
• Opening of the Vasco da Gama Bridge – analysis of the impact of the new crossing over the Tagus river in Expresso newspaper in 1998 (in Portuguese)
• Diário de Notícias newspaper – online edition in 1996 (in Portuguese)

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco. It was conceived as a library of the Internet and provides collections of digital content, including Web sites, music and books.

• How to supply historical contents to the Portuguese Web Archive?

The paper Characterizing Search Behavior in Web Archives, by Miguel Costa and Mário J. Silva, was presented at Temporal Web Analytics Workshop 2011, in Hyderabad, India.

• Presentation

We hope that the published information can be collaboratively kept up-to-date by the community and translated to different languages.

• List of Web Archiving Initiatives

We are pleased to announce that this information has been successfully integrated and can now be searched using our experimental service.

Sample pages from the collection:

• Cemitério do Alto das Cruzes de Luanda e outras fotos – selection of photos and news reports from Angola in 1996
• Mediana – which explores the relationship between media and the public, created in 1998
• Bósnia – selection of news articles and photos during the trip to Bósnia-Herzegovina in 1998

Dinis Manuel Alves is a journalist and researcher in the field of media and communication. He graduated in Law and in Journalism and has a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences – Media Speech from the University of Coimbra. He started in journalism in 1989 at TSF radio station and worked, among others, for Expresso newspaper, TVI TV station, and Grande Reportagem magazine.

• How to supply historical contents to the Portuguese Web Archive?