Arquivo.pt participated in the International Digital Curation Conference with a presentation entitled How Arquivo.pt is Preserving scientific research project websites and promoting data reuse, represented by Ricardo Basílio, digital curator. IDDC 2026 took place in Zagreb, Croatia, between February 16 and 18. The organizer of this annual event is the Digital Curation Center, a leading […]
The 2026 Portuguese presidential election took place between January 18 and February 15. Arquivo.pt collected 2.3 terabytes of electoral content and now provides data on the entire process, such as search terms, identified content, and archived content. The 2026 Presidential Elections took place in two rounds, the first on January 18 and the second on […]
"Café with Arquivo.pt" consists of short online sessions so that anyone can attend during working hours. Its aim is to raise awareness of Arquivo.pt and gather contributions from the community on topics related to web preservation. In December 2025, a new series was launched dedicated to the thematic collections that Arquivo.pt publishes as datasets on […]
On 19 November, the last session of 2025 of the cycle Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory (Arquivos do Saber: Ciência, História e Memória) cycle took place, an initiative of the FCT Science and Technology Archive. The event took place in the small auditorium of the FCCN premises, FCT's digital services unit, at Avenida […]
On World Digital Preservation Day, Arquivo.pt is promoting an online session dedicated to annotating search results on Arquivo.pt. On World Digital Preservation Day, Arquivo.pt promoted an online session dedicated to annotating search results on Arquivo.pt, on 6 November, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The following topics were covered: i) Access as a priority – […]
Local elections ("autárquicas") were held in Portugal on 12 October 2025, and Arquivo.pt compiled a special collection of electoral content published on the web, resulting in 3.5 terabytes of information for research and academic work. 440 search terms were used to obtain 43,000 page addresses, along with the websites of parishes, municipalities, and political parties. […]
Local elections will be held in Portugal on 12 October 2025 (Eleições Autárquicas), and Arquivo.pt will launch a special collection of electoral content. Whenever elections are held, websites and social media channels are created for electoral purposes, many of which are deactivated shortly afterwards. Sometimes, publications made during the election campaign disappear and it is […]
The winners of the Arquivo.pt 2025 Award were announced by the Público newspaper, the official media partner, on 28 June 2025. A total of 36 entries were received and validated. The award ceremony took place at the closing session of Encontro Ciência, at the NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE) campus in Carcavelos, […]
Arquivo.pt was present at the 6th RESAW Conference for researchers in the Digital Humanities, Media and Communication and other areas, on the theme of ‘The Datafied Web’, which took place at the University of Siegen, Germany, from 4 to 6 June 2025. RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) is an informal […]
Arquivo.pt carried out a special collection of content published online in connection with the Legislative Elections of 18 May 2025. More than 8,000 unique pages were recorded, before and after the elections, resulting in around 250 Gigabytes of information. This collection includes news items from the media, party websites and other citizen publications documenting this […]