Meet the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2021!

August 6, 2024June 17, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:17 pm

The winners of the Arquivo.pt 2020 Award was announced by the Público newspaper, the official media partner of this year’s edition, which granted an honorable mention to the best work based on the contents of the newspaper. 26 candidate works were received.

The award ceremony toke place during Science 2021 – Meeting with Science and Technology, june 30, at the Lisbon Congress Center.

1st place – “Major Minors”

The winner of the 10,000 euros prize was the work “Major Minors” by Paulo Martins e Leandro Costa.

“Major Minors” is an Ontology of press clippings from Portuguese newspapers with reference to social minorities.

2nd place – “Politiquices”

The 2nd prize in the amount of 3,000 euros was awarded to the work “Politiquices” developed by David Batista.

“Politquices” is a Web application that allows searching support or opposition relations between political personalities and parties expressed in news headlines preserved at Arquivo.pt.

This interface makes it possible to analyse the relationship of support or opposition between two political personalities or organisations.

3rd place – “Primeiras páginas de jornais online portugueses”

The 3rd place winner received a prize of 2,000 euros and was awarded to the work “Primeiras páginas de jornais online portugueses”, developed by Susana Parreiraunder the supervision of Ana Sabino, Ana Boavida e Penousal Machado.

“Primeiras páginas de jornais online portugueses” (Front pages of Portuguese online newspapers) presents an interactive graphical analysis of the front pages of Portuguese online newspapers. For this study, specific items within the newspaper design were analysed, thus allowing trends to be observed over time.

As a result we have a Web interface that allows interactively visualising, for example, the space occupied by the images on the Público newspaper front page.

Honorable Mention granted by Público newspaper

Público newspaper, official partner of the 4th edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize, awarded its Honorable Mention to the work “Primeiras páginas de jornais online portugueses”.

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Internet Memory Foundation collection available in Arquivo.pt

August 9, 2024May 26, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 9th, 2024 at 04:15 pm

The historical collection of web content generated during the Internet Memory Foundation’s (IMF) activity has been donated to Arquivo.pt and is now searchable!

The IMF was a European organization dedicated to preserving web content that was wound up in 2018.

The 1st web archiving project in Europe (2004-2010) was led by Julien Masanès (who was guest of honour at the celebration of 10 years of Arquivo.pt) and was called European Archive Foundation.

In 2010, Julien Masanès, the “father” of Web archives in Europe created the IMF.

Examples of pages from the collection donated by the IMF

The collection donated by the IMF has now been integrated in the Arquivo.pt collection to be preserved for posterity.

This collection is composed of 142 million files that total 6.3 TB of historical information whose texts or images can now be searched through Arquivo.pt.

Life Science Competence in Europe portal, 2009.

LIMES project homepage (Land and Sea Monitoring for Environment and Security), 2009.

Project Intelligence-territoriale homepage, 2009.

European Parliament news page in the 20th anniversary of the break of the Berlim Wall, 2009.

Le Figaro about French presidential election, 2012.

Reuters with a new about WikiLeaks, 2011.

Internet Memory Foundation homepage, 2014.

Search this new collection!

This new collection has been named “InternetMemory” in the Arquivo.pt collections list.

Searches can be made on this collection using the collection search parameter or through the custom search page available at arquivo.pt/InternetMemory.

“Art Forever on the Web”: Cycle of Webinars

July 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

composicao sobre Colectiva de Artistas 2008 Quadrado Azul

Last updated on July 6th, 2021 at 01:23 pm

Colectiva de Artistas. 2008.04.19 a 2008.06.07. Galeria Quadrado Azul. Porto. Composition from a Webpage preserved on Arquivo.pt: www.quadradoazul.pt, 22nd October 2008.

On April 29, May 27 and July 1, from 3 to 4:30 pm, webinars geared to the community of artists, curators, gallerists and event producers will be held, open also to anyone interested in learning more about preserving art websites.

Throughout the sessions, participants will learn in detail about the functionalities of Arquivo.pt in order to take advantage of this public Web preservation service. They will have technical information, in the form of recommendations and best practices, to create preservable websites. Finally, they will learn how to use available tools to save their websites in a standardized format so that their contents are not lost.

This cycle of Webinars is an initiative of the “Forever” Project, a collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library and Arquivo.pt under the ROSSIO infrastructure.

For more details and sharing, please see the program (PDF) (in Portuguese).

Sign up!

April 29 – The Arquivo.pt and the preservation of digital memory
May 27 – Recommendations for creating preservable websites for the future
July 1 – Archiving the Web: do-it-yourself!

Held sessions presentations

April 29 April – The Arquivo.pt and the preservation of digital memory

May 27 – Recommendations for creating preservable websites for the future

July 1, Session 3: Archive the Web: do-it-your-self!

Millions of images from the past!

August 23, 2022April 1, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 23rd, 2022 at 04:21 pm

Arquivo.pt launched a new version named Dionisius, on March 24th 2021.

1.8 billion images from the past Web are now searchable on Arquivo.pt.

Supporting large-scale image search over Web archives is a world-wide innovation.

To learn more about the development of this system, watch the video “Arquivo.pt image search 2020-2021“.

Try for example, how a search for images about “golf” returns images gathered from archived websites.

Results page from a search for the term “golf” on Arquivo.pt.

The new image search API also allows you to create new works to apply for the Arquivo.pt Awards.

Help us to improve!

To help us, just try to perform an image search on Arquivo.pt using any device (e.g. laptop, mobile phone, tablet).

If you have any comment, please contact us!

Remember to always send us the URL of the page you are referring to.

To know more

New “query suggestions” on Arquivo.pt!

January 29, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Arquivo.pt launched a new version, named Caronte, on January 19, 2021.

In this version we improved the query suggestions feature (Did you mean).

Whenever a user enters a query containing a potential error, Arquivo.pt presents a suggestion for an alternative query.

For example, when searching for “now york” you get the suggestion “Did you mean: new york”.

Figure 1: Example of the query suggest feature by searching the term “now york”

The opening of applications to the Arquivo.pt Award 2021 until the 4th May became also emphasized on the home page.

Help us to improve!

To help us, just search the Arquivo.pt using any device (e.g. laptop, mobile phone, tablet).

If you encounter any problem, please contact us!

Remember to always send us the address of the page where you detected the problem.

To know more

See the list of 16 issues solved.

Open applications to the Arquivo.pt Award 2021!

August 6, 2024January 22, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:17 pm

Open applications to the Arquivo.pt Award 2021!

In this 4th edition of the annual Arquivo.pt Award, € 15,000 will be awarded to the 3 best works (1st place: € 10,000).

The deadline for submissions is May 4, 2021.

Works may be developed individually or in group about any topic, as long as they use the information provided by Arquivo.pt as the main source of information.

The Público Newspaper is the official media partner of the Arquivo.pt Award in 2021. It was one of the first newspapers to become available online.

Jornal Público will award an Honorable Mention to one of the works which focused on the historical web-archive of Público online.

Full details about the applications are available at:
https://arquivo.pt/award2021.

The Arquivo.pt Award promotes the visibility of the applicants and their institutions.

Help us to spread the word about the Arquivo.pt Award!

Special collection of Portuguese Presidential Elections

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

banner_presidenciais_v — Form to suggest a web page, a web site or other web content

Arquivo.pt invites all citizens to suggest web pages related to the 2021 Presidential Elections to be preserved for the future.

The Presidential Elections will take place in Portugal on January 24, 2021.

Your suggestions are important so that Arquivo.pt can keep a more complete memory of this important electoral event.

To suggest web pages use this form (https://tinyurl.com/presidenciais-sugerir)

Arquivo.pt preserves websites of national scientific projects

October 1, 2021January 2, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on October 1st, 2021 at 09:11 am

Preserving scientific project websites is important

The contents of the websites tend to disappear when the scientific projects are finished.

The preservation of scientific project websites is important because:

documents the development of projects;
ensures access to unique technical and scientific content that researchers have posted on the project websites (eg presentations, photographs, data sets);
reinforces the visibility of the results of projects financed by FCT.

Experimental collection of scientific projects websites in 2016

Arquivo.pt automatically collected websites for projects financed by FCT in 2016.

The information about these websites was dispersed as it was not recorded during the administrative process.

For about 20 years, FCT financed scientific projects, so the number of sites could be too high to be identified manually.

Then an automatic methodology for identifying these websites was developed, developed by Arquivo.pt.

The FCT database had a total of 11,996 project entries but did not include references to web addresses. Applying the automatic methodology, 7 956 URLs related to the funded scientific projects were identified.

The collection of content referenced by these addresses resulted in the preservation of 600 721 files (72 GB), including content such as research group web pages, researchers’ personal pages or project-related blogs.

Online references in scientific project reports have been preserved since 2020

From June 2020, the website addresses of the projects financed by FCT must be registered in the progress and final reports funded by FCT.

Arquivo.pt started using these addresses to preserve the contents of websites of national scientific projects in a systematic way.

1st official collection of scientific project websites

In June 2020, Arquivo.pt obtained 263 addresses related to 100 scientific projects from the reports submitted to FCT. Most of the addresses (67%) did not have any version previously preserved in Arquivo.pt.

The addresses obtained point to online resources such as the websites of the projects, R&D units, news in the media, articles in scientific journals or repositories, databases, videos on Youtube or Facebook pages.

In July 2020, a special collection was launched from this set of addresses which resulted in 6.9 GB of information obtained from the visit to 31,606 URLs.

Exhibition about Research & Development projects

The Scientific Research Memory is an online exhibition dedicated to the websites of scientific projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that Arquivo.pt has preserved.

There are also websites of the Research & Development Units financed by FCT.

Memorial do Arquivo.pt preserves scientific websites for free

The Memorial do Arquivo.pt service has preserved historic FCT websites that have been disabled. These were created for events or initiatives that have ended and therefore their contents are no longer updated.

To include a website in the Memorial, Arquivo.pt starts by making a high quality collection of its contents.

Then, the collected contents are validated in collaboration with those responsible for the website.

Finally, the website address is redirected to the contents that have been preserved by Arquivo.pt.

For example, if someone wants to access any page on the Scientific Archives Meeting held in 2014, they will be redirected to Arquivo.pt.

Thus, the contents remain accessible over time and the links, the references in scientific communications that may exist do not break.

The digital preservation service Memorial do Arquivo.pt is free of charge for websites of the academic and scientific community, just send a request to contacto@arquivo.pt.

To know more

Preserving Websites Of Research & Development Projects, International Conference on Digital Preservation, Outubro de 2016 (ppt, bibtex)
O papel do Arquivo.pt na Ciência e Ensino Superior

Online archives or archives of the online?

December 29, 2020December 28, 2020 by Ricardo Basílio

At the end of 2020, we recommend some texts that put the future in perspective.

We highlight the theme of preserving online content presented in the ebook “Tendências 2021” (Trends 2021). The contribution of Daniel Gomes, the Arquivo.pt manager, was entitled “Arquivos online ou do online?” (Online archives or archives of the online?).

I was invited to write about the challenges and threats to online archives. The first question that came to me was what is meant by an “online archive”?

My concern lies in the “archives of the online” because there is not even an established awareness about their need, whether at an academic, governmental or individual level.

It is technologically impossible to preserve all information available online. But it is absurd not to be aware that we have to preserve some of the information online for short, medium and long term access.

The complete text (in Portuguese) is available at pages 23 to 26 of the open-access book “Tendências 2021”.

The challenge is to cultivate awareness about the importance of preserving content online by learning how to do it in practice.

Happy New Year!

Online Cafe with Arquivo.pt is back

August 2, 2024November 23, 2020 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 2nd, 2024 at 02:01 pm

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Welcome to the second season of the Online Cafe with Arquivo.pt

Talk directly to the Arquivo.pt team and get answers to all your questions! The Arquivo.pt launched a new cycle of team chats with you through online sessions. Brief introductory presentations will be given, leaving time to ask all your questions about how to get more out of Arquivo.pt or how to apply to the Arquivo.pt Awards.

Sessions held

21st session – Bilions of images to search on Arquivo.pt – all about the Arquivo.pt API

In March 2021 Arquivo.pt launched a new version with 1800 million images available. The search for images in web archives at this scale is unique in the world and innovative. The process used for indexing was explained in detail, in this session, as well as the best way to take advantage of these resources using the API to create new works based on images.

André Mourão, Ph.D. in Computer Science, is working on the indexing of the information, specially images from the Internet of the past to the present at Arquivo.pt (Portuguese Web Archive). He is a researcher working on ways to search and interpret multimedia data (e.g., images, text, video) effectively at large scales. He is also the co-creator of Revisionista.PT, uncovering post-publication edits in Portuguese news articles (with Flávio Martins) and an Associated Member at NOVA LINCS research center.

Speaker: André Mourão, Arquivo.pt R&D
Slides (3 MB, PDF)
Vídeo on Youtube (35 min.)

20th session – March 26 – The Online Centenary of the Great War

Daniela Major, invited speaker of the 20th Café with Arquivo.pt, presented a use case about historical research and old websites. The commemoration of the Centenary of the 1st World War generated several strategies for international cooperation in the 21st century and such diversity is present in the information published on commemorative websites. In this session, Daniela Major will show how she used Web archives to start a study in the context of Contemporary History, as well as the methodological implications in her work.

Daniela Major is a PhD student in Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In 2019, within the scope of the ROSSIO Infrastructure, he started at Arquivo.pt a study on the celebrations of World War I based on the preserved contents of the Web. Currently, his PhD focuses on the media impact of the idea of Europe over the past few years. 15 years, in an effort to combine intellectual history with digital humanities.

This event, Cafe with Arquivo.pt, toke place for the first time 1 year ago, on the 27th march 2020. Cheers!

Invited speaker: Daniela Major
Vídeo on Youtube (26 min.) (Portuguese)

Special Session – March 2 – Arquivo.pt Award story and questions

Resume: The Arquivo.pt Award was created in 2018 in order to promote the use of Arquivo.pt for innotive works. How many candidates had applied since till now? What areas did the work focus on? What is the balance between Studies and Applications? Who were the winners and what were their main contributions? These and other questions were the guidelines for this session dedicated Award 2021.

This session was presented by Daniel Gomes and the Arquivo.pt team

18th session – Newspapers and web archives

This session was dedicated to the websites of Portuguese newspapers. Diogo Silva da Cunha talked about his first contact with Arquivo.pt and his approach, concretized in an “research route” as a way of delimiting the scope of his analysis. He also presented the results of his research about Correio da Manhã, Diário de Notícias, Expresso and Público newspapers.

Diogo Silva da Cunha is PhD student at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, collaborator at the Center for Philosophy of Sciences at the same university. He recently published a study on the preservation of newspapers’ web pages in the book “O choque tecno-liberal, os media e o jornalismo: estudos críticos sobre a realidade Portuguesa”. In 2017, he participated in the Digital Humanities project Investiga XXI at Arquivo.pt.

17th session – january 15 – How to do an exhibition of old web pages without being an IT expert (tutorial)

This session present by Ricardo Basílio, the Arquivo.pt digital curator, is focused in practical aspects, when preparing an exhibition of old pages. As example: the use of long links, tipical of web archives, graphic aspects to be taken into account and navigation routes between webpages. The WordPress.com is used as platform to show how easy is build a web exhibition. The core aspects of dissimination content from Web archives have application in other platforms.

Video and presentation: (soon)

To know more about Portuguese newspapers in the Arquivo.pt see the exhibition Memória da Imprensa Portuguesa.

16th session – december 11 – Arquivo Económico .pt

Arquivo Económico .PT, authored by Nuno Bragança, 3rd place in Arquivo.pt Awards 2020, is a WebApp that allows discovering prices on web pages along time, over a set products in frequent use and compare them with current prices. Data are obtainned automatically from Arquivo.pt, processed and presented in an intuitive way for the common user. The possibility of comparing the present with the past based on information from the archived web shows how it can be useful not only to satisfy curiosity but also to support studies in many areas.

Slides (2MB, PDF)

15th session – november 24 – Extension Arquivo.pt

In this session we met the winners of 2nd place the Arquivo.pt Awards 2020. Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva talked about the their work “Arquivo.pt Extension” wich is a browser extension that allows users to search on Arquivo.pt. They showed through practical examples how the extension save time and helps the acess to the Arquivo.pt.

Slides, 1.1 MB, PDF

Special session – World Digital Preservation Day 2020 – november 5

In November, World Digital Preservation Day is broadly celebrated and, to mark this international initiative, Arquivo.pt held an online session open to the community. The special guest of this session was the winner of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020, Miguel Ramalho, who told us about his work entitled “Desarquivo”.

Sessions held between mars and july 2020

Sessions of the 1st season of the On line Cafe with Arquivo.pt