Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:12 pm
The distributed and redundant architecture of the system developed by the Archive aims at keeping the search service available for as long as possible.
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Technical report analyses query suggestion for Web archives
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:20 pm
The integration of the developed query suggestion feature in the Portuguese Web Archive’s interface enables an improved user experience.
The Portuguese Web Archive is available via OpenSearch
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:34 pm
This interface makes it easier to develop tools that use the Archive’s search features. The search results are returned in XML format (RSS 2.0).
Scientific study analyses worldwide Web archiving initiatives
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:36 pm
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.
Portuguese Web Archive available as open source
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:38 pm
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.
rARC service suspended
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:46 pm
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.
Video about the Portuguese Web Archive
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 03:06 pm
The presentation focused on the following points:
- Motivation for the Web archiving topic
- Portuguese Web Archive project status report
- Services available to the community
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Usability in practice: we have published a video about our experience
Last updated on December 20th, 2019 at 05:44 pm
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
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Collection from 1996 to 2000 can now be searched
Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:52 pm
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.