Arquivo.pt training in Azores islands

July 15, 2022May 10, 2019 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 12:56 pm

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:

Memory of the web: a forgoten heritage?, by Daniel Gomes (in portuguese);
Curation of institutional websites, by Ricardo Basílio (in portuguese);
Automatic access and processing of preserved Web data (APIs), by Fernando Melo (in portuguese);
Recommendations for web publication of preservable information, by Daniel Bicho (in portuguese).

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.

Jornadas 2019

Students from Coimbra visit Arquivo.pt

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 by admin

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

Bring your institution. Contact us on arquivo.pt/contact

Visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Visita guiada ao Arquivo.pt, que funciona no Campus do LNEC

Sessão acerca do Arquivo.pt no pequeno auditório do LNEC

Daniel Gomes, gestor do Arquivo, acompanha a visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Daniel Gomes, gestor do Arquivo acompanha a visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Ask for an exhibition of posters about historical web pages

February 13, 2023April 26, 2019 by admin

Last updated on February 13th, 2023 at 03:17 pm

If you wish to host an exhibition to show-off on a common space (e.g. library, university hallway, common room in a congress center), please contact us!

Examples of performed exhibitions

These four exhibitions presented iconic web pages from Portugal’s recent history.

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.

Exposições Arquivo.pt

News about our poster exhibitions

Arquivo.pt Exhibition in FCT – Caparica

March 29, 2019March 21, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 01:37 pm

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.

Expo Arquivo.pt FCT – Caparica

Arquivo.pt Awards 2019 launching event

April 3, 2019March 15, 2019 by admin

Last updated on April 3rd, 2019 at 05:07 pm

Arquivo.pt Award 2019 was officially launched during an event at the Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, in Lisbon, March 13th.

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.

Submit your work to Arquivo.pt Award 2019. The 3 best works will receive a total of 15,ooo euros in prizes

Arquivo.pt Award 2019 launching event

Opening

Speech by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor

Presentation of the portal Arquivo.pt and the Arquivo.pt by Daniel Gomes, FCT

Speech by His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic

President of the Portuguese Republic launches Arquivo.pt Award 2019

March 8, 2019March 7, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 8th, 2019 at 03:05 pm

Arquivo.pt is honoured to announce that the launching event of the Arquivo.pt Award 2019 will take place at the Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, in Lisbon, on March 13th, at 3:30 pm.

The President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), Manuel Heitor, and the FCT vice-president, Helena Pereira will attend the ceremony.

The event is open to all interested parties but limited to the facility capacity.

See the complete schedule below:

3:30 pm – Reception
4 pm – Opening (MPR)
4:05 pm – Speech by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor
4:15 pm – Presentation of the portal Arquivo.pt and the Arquivo.pt by Daniel Gomes, FCT
4:30 pm – Address by His Excellency the President of the Republic and inauguration of “Time travel with the Presidents of the Republic” exhibit.
4:45 pm – Cocktail and guided tours of the Museum and the Arquivo.pt exhibition
5:30 p.m. – Closing

For more information: 213 614 660 or museu@presidencia.pt

Submit your work to Arquivo.pt Award 2019. The 3 best works will receive a total of 15,ooo euros in prizes

Arquivo.pt in the Azores, May 2019

May 2, 2019February 22, 2019 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on May 2nd, 2019 at 01:49 pm

Jornadas de Computação Científica is an annual event on scientific computing. In 2019 it will be take place between the 6 and 8 of May, at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada.

The event is aimed at teachers, students, researchers and service providers in Higher Education institutions.

Sessions Arquivo.pt on May 6 from 14h30 to 18h00

14h30 – The Memory of the Web: a forgotten heritage?, Daniel Gomes
15h15 – Preservation of institutional Web sites, Ricardo Basílio

16h00 – Coffee break

16h30 – Recommendations for publishing information on the Web, Daniel Bicho
17h15 – Automatic access to Arquivo.pt (APIs), Fernando Melo
17h45 – A few words from our sponsor Huawei, Henrique Oliveira

The event also includes an Azorean dinner on May 7.

Registration is free but mandatory.

New version of Arquivo.pt (Image Search release)

July 15, 2022January 31, 2019 by admin

Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 01:10 pm

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on December 27, 2018, called Image Search Release.

This new version has as main novelty, a new functionality of image search in Arquivo.pt.

Image Search

The Image Search is available at https://arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en.

At the moment it is a trial version, only available in the desktop version of Arquivo.pt.

The functionality allows not only to find images from the past preserved by Arquivo.pt but also to find the webpage from the past that contained the founded image.

With the Image Search, it is possible to:

visit the preserved page that contains the image
see the image
see details about the page and image preserved by Arquivo.pt
share the image on social media.

Arquivo.pt has also developed an advanced image search page for those who want to do more complex searches.

Advanced image search

The advanced search for images from Arquivo.pt is available at https://arquivo.pt/advancedImages.jsp?l=en.

Advanced image search allows you to:

search for terms
search for expressions
exclude certain words
limit search by dates
select the size of the images
select the file format of the images
enable / disable safe search filter
restrict the site where the image was found.

If you find any error Arquivo.pt, or if you have any suggestions please contact us.

More info

API for image search (beta)
Option “Report problem” available in all interfaces of Arquivo.pt
Fixed cross site scripting vulnerabilities
Added email sharing functionality on all mobile interfaces of Arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt and CLEOPATRA Project together in funding for PhD students

March 29, 2019January 29, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 02:12 pm

CLEOPATRA Project is announcing 15 fully-funded PhD students. Subjects include Semantic Web, natural language processing, digital humanities and social sciences, and many others.

Arquivo.pt is directly involved in three of the courses: Incentives design for hybrid multilingual information processing and analytics, in Southampton; National and transnational media coverage of European parliamentary elections, 2004-2014, London (United Kingdom); and NLP for under-resourced languages, in Zagreb, Croatia.

For more information about the courses, or for applications go to CLEOPATRA Project website.

Videos from Arquivo.pt Seminar in Tomar

March 29, 2019January 23, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 03:10 pm

The Arquivo.pt team held a training session at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar last October

Daniel Gomes, the manager of Arquivo.pt, and Fernando Melo and Daniel Bicho, from the development and technology team, presented the seminar “Arquivo.pt: pesquise páginas do passado!” (Arquivo.pt: search pages from the past!) to students of the Institute and other people interested in learning how to use the digital archives.

Click on the links below to watch Arquivo.pt team’s presentations (in Portuguese)

Arquivo.pt training sessions are free. Contact us to schedule a visit to your institution.

Arquivo.pt: new ways of searching the past (slides), by Daniel Gomes (in Portuguese).
How to publish information in order to be preserved (slides), by Daniel Bicho (in Portuguese).
Arquivo. API – interface for automatic access (slides), by Fernando Melo (in Portuguese).