We share our experience with usability processes used to solve problems in the development of the Portuguese Web Archive. 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 […]
Talk about the evolution of Web characteristics, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive. The presentation focuses on the following points: The Web Web Archiving and crawlers Web characteristics and its evolution within 5 years The importance of the study on Web trends in the design of tools that process its […]
A collection of contents from the .PT domain between 1996 and 2000, provided by the Internet Archive, has been successfully integrated in the Portuguese Web Archive. Search it now Sample pages from the collection: Governing in Dialogue - message from the prime minister of Portugal in his official page in 1998 Jacques Delors Information Centre […]
This research presents a search behaviour characterization of Web archive users. Detailed statistics about the users' sessions, queries, terms and clicks were analised from search logs. 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
Following the survey performed to draw a picture of web archiving worldwide, we created a Wikipedia page named "List of Web Archiving Initiatives". 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
A collection of journalistic pieces written by Dinis Manuel Alves published on the Web between 1997 and 2003 was supplied by the author to the Portuguese Web Archive. 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 […]