The 4th Meeting of Libraries of Higher Education, for librarians in Portuguese universities, held at Coimbra University, on 4 and 5 June 2019, had two presentations about Arquivo.pt.
The second presented the new “Memorial” Arquivo.pt service, which preserves the sites at the end of their life cycle, keeping them accessible to institutional memory and research.
About 170 librarians participated at the meeting and were challenged to collaborate with Arquivo.pt adopting simple but decisive practices to preserve the Web with quality.
Websites and pages about the elections disappear quickly after the election period, leaving a void of information in place of History.
It’s everyone’s responsibility to preserve the memory. We are inviting you to identify web pages related to the elections, as soon as you can, so that the debates and ideas of this time are not forgotten.
Just add to the collaborative list the addresses of pages or sites that you find relevant for the future memory of these elections, through the following link:
At the end of 2018, Arquivo.pt launched an experimental image search service from the past, which it was possible to search around 4 million images from the past, coming from some collections of Arquivo.pt.
Memorial (hight quality preservation) and image search were highlighted as new developments in Arquivo.pt during Jornadas de Computação Científica 2019, held from 6 to 8 at the University of Azores in Ponta Delgada.
On the first day of this annual event, Arquivo.pt developed a training session in 4 parts:
Participants learned about the web preservation service offered to the community by the Arquivo.pt that for the purpose of researching and safeguarding the digital heritage, and how they can help preserve the Web.
In addition to the Jornadas 2019, the Arquivo.pt team also made two presentations in class context. The first was to students of the Informatics – Networks and Multimedia course at the University of Azores, and the second at the Escola Secundária das Laranjeiras (high school) in Ponta Delgada.
To schedule a training session with Arquivo.pt, contact us.
On April 11, Arquivo.pt headquarters at LNEC welcomed 30 students enrolled in the course of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
On the occasion, students had the opportunity to take part in a technical visit, and a training session on digital preservation and on the services offered by Arquivo.pt
If you want to know more about Arquivo.pt you can visit one of the four simultaneous exhibitions of iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history.
Have a look below to learn where you can find the exhibitions and the visiting times of each one.
Universidade do Minho – Gualtar Campus – Braga
Where: Espaço B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library
When: Until April 18. From Monday to Friday, from 8h30 to midnight. And Saturdays from 08h30 to 14h30.
Universidade do Minho – Azurém Campus – Guimarães
Where: Espaço B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library
When: From April 23 to May 10. From Monday to Friday, from 8h30 to midnight. And Saturdays from 08h30 to 14h30.
ISCTE – Lisboa
Where: ISCTE-IUL Library.
When: From April 16 until May 11. From 8h to 21h.
Escola Superior de Hotelaria do Estoril
Where: Celestino Gomes Library
When: Until May 15. From Monday to Friday, from 9h30 to 12h00 and from 14h30 to 17h30. And from 6 to May 18. From Monday to Friday, from 9h30 to 20h30, Saturdays from 9h30 to 13h.
NOVA – IMS – Campolide Campus
Where: Nova IMS Library and Main Corridor.
When: Until April 18. From Monday to Friday, from 10h to 18h. And April 22 to 30, from 9h to 20h.
If you are interested in bringing an Arquivo.pt Exhibition to your city or institution, please contact us.
Next Thursday, 28th March, is the last day to visit Arquivo.pt Exhibition in FCT – Library, in Caparica.
The exhibition is open to the public all day long, from 9 am to 8 pm and shows six iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history such as the result of the 1996 Presidential Elections in Portugal, the Expo’98 page, or the first home page of the RTP television network, published in 1998.
FCT – Library is located at Caparica Campus. For further information call 212 94 78 29.
This exhibition is itinerant, so if you are interested in bringing it to your city or institution, please contact Arquivo.pt.
The President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), Manuel Heitor, and the vice-president of FCT, Helena Pereira attended the ceremony.
In his speech, Marcelo Rebelo highlighted the importance of initiatives like Arquivo.pt Awards, as well as the services offered by the portal.