Applications are open to the Arquivo.pt Award 2020!
In this 3rd 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, 2020.
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 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.
Domain spam filter on search page
Another novelty was the inclusion of a filter in the search of pages of domains considered by the Archive.pt as spam. For example, the search for Portuguese geographical points returned better results.
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Pywb software update to version 2.3.5 with improved page reproduction quality
Added indexed images until December 2017 on search image
To celebrate the date, Arquivo.pt a free training on Web Preservation was given. The objective of the training has been to maximize users’ productivity in exploring the service.
The Arquivo.pt Award aims to annually promote innovative works based on historical information preserved by Arquivo.pt. Submissions closed on May 3 and we received works in areas such as: media studies, education, design, information technology, health or cultural and historical heritage.
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.