Arquivo.pt is back to its origins at FCUL 20 years later

Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

FCUL exhibition

The exhibition of Arquivo.pt is being displayed at the library of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) until April 30.

Eight posters with old web pages invite students, researchers and professors to use Arquivo.pt in their work and apply to the Arquivo.pt 2020 Award. There will be training at FCUL on March 12, 4h30 to 18h00 p.m., room 1.3.15.

This exhibition has been going through several Higher Education institutions, but in the case of FCUL it is a return to its origins.

In 2000 at FCUL, XLDB Research Group of the Department of Informatics, supported by FCCN (the agency that supports computing for science, research and technology), started a project on research and access to Web content, an optimised search engine: TUMBA! – (meaning “We have an alternative search engine!”).

Between 2002 and 2006, as part of a new project (TOMBA, referring to the national archive, Torre do Tombo), a prototype was developed for a national web archive. The researcher group was awarded as the best article by the network DELOS – Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.

Arquivo.pt was officially launched at the FCCN in November 2007, aimed to collecting and preserving Portuguese Web content and using specific technologies, similar to those of the Internet Archive.

Three researchers from FCUL were part of the core team. They have developed the Arquivo.pt service in the early years. In 2010, they presented a prototype of a search service, a Google for the past, innovative in the context of web archiving.

Currently, Arquivo.pt also has an image search and an API (Advanced Programming Interface). It maintains the perspective, followed by the first project at FCUL, which is based of creating useful services for the community.

Arquivo.pt Memorial is the most recent service, created for institutions that wants to keep old sites accessible, even after disconnecting them from their servers. As an example of this, you can visit the Minema project (finished years ago), and see how this service works.

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Exposições 2020

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Credits to Valter Gouveia

Arquivo.pt Award 2020 launched at Público Newspaper

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Last updated on March 24th, 2020 at 12:21 pm

The Arquivo.pt Award 2020 was officially launched on January 16th, at the Público Newspaper in Lisbon. Público is one of the most well-known newspapers in Portugal.

The event had talks by the Director of Público Newspaper Manuel Carvalho, the President of the Foundation for Science and Technology Helena Pereira and the manager of Arquivo.pt Daniel Gomes.

Participants of this open event were led into a guided visit to the newsroom. They saw a real scenario where contents of a newspaper are edited and produced.

Público’s website is daily crawled by the Arquivo.pt, which means an important contribution to the future access and use of contents.

In the 2020 edition of the Arquivo.pt Award, Público Newspaper will grant an Honorable Mention to works based on the newspaper’s content along its 20 years.

Find out how to apply, till 4th of May: arquivo.pt/award2020

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Photos by: Valter Gouveia, FCT

Applications open to the Arquivo.pt Award 2020!

Arquivo.pt Award 2020

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 Público Newspaper is the official media partner of the Arquivo.pt Award in 2020. It was one of the first newspapers to become available online.

Jornal Público celebrates its 30th anniversary on March 5, 2020 and 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/award2020

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

Help us to spread the word!

New version of Arquivo.pt (Image Service release)

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on November 11, 2019, called Image Service Release [1] [2] [3] [4].

This new version has as main novelty, the mobile image search.

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The mobile version now has a new design.

Mobile image search

Image search is now available for mobile devices https://m.arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en.

Image search of Ronaldo

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.

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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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More info

  • Pywb software update to version 2.3.5 with improved page reproduction quality
  • Added indexed images until December 2017 on search image

Arquivo.pt celebrates the World Digital Preservation Day with free training

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Last updated on November 25th, 2019 at 10:34 am

November 7 was the World Digital Preservation Day 2019 (#WDPD2019).

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 event began at 13:30 pm (see full schedule below), in the Pequeno Auditório located at FCT-FCCN (Avenida do Brasil, 101 – Lisbon).

Schedule

Target Audience

  • Information professionals (e.g. librarians, archivists, and documentalists)
  • Website managers (e.g. Communication and Design bureaus)
  • Web content authors (e.g. bloggers)
  • Professors, students, and researchers interested in Digital Preservation

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Results

The training was attended by 43 participants, who rated it as good.

Do not miss the next WDPD in 2020 and subscribe to the Arquivo.pt mailing list.

Meet the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2019!

Last updated on August 26th, 2022 at 02:22 pm

The winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2019 were announced by His Excellency the Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa during the session that took place on July 8 at 9:00 am in Auditorium 1 during the event Science 2019 – Encounter with Science and Technology at the Lisbon Congress Center.

23 applications were received.

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1st place: meuParlamento.pt

MeuParlamento.pt is a mobile application that simulates the Portuguese Parliament, calling on all citizens to play the role of a deputy.

Authors: Nuno Moniz, Arian Pasquali, Tomás Amaro

2nd place: Revisionista.pt: Un-cover the news

The Revisionista.pt is an online tool to reveal post-publication changes in the Portuguese news.

Authors: Flávio Martins and André Mourão

3rd place: Public speeches about violence in private

Analysis of 217 news collected in Arquivo.pt from the three main daily newspapers, on domestic violence.

Author: Zélia de Macedo Teixeira

Materials for dissemination about the winners

About the Arquivo.pt Award 2019

Arquivo.pt is a research infrastructure managed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that enables search and access to web pages archived since 1996.

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 Arquivo.pt Award 2019 received the High Sponsorship of His Excellency the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

Arquivo.pt Award 2020

The Arquivo.pt Award was approved as an annual initiative of the Foundation for Science and Technology that will run from January to May.

Sign up for the Arquivo.pt international mailing list to be informed about future editions of the Arquivo.pt Award!

 

Arquivo.pt in Croatia

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Last updated on October 1st, 2020 at 04:44 pm

The Arquivo.pt team went to the biggest international Web archiving conference.

The conference, organized by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), occurred from the 5th to the 7th of June 2019.

 

Interview to Daniel Gomes, Head of Arquivo.pt

 

Arquivo.pt contributed with 5 additional presentations during the conference.

The slides and videos are available in the following links:

Sites crawled in 2017 are available through Arquivo.pt

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Last updated on July 2nd, 2019 at 03:58 pm

The information collected from the Web during 2017 is avaliable in Arquivo.pt.

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Fires in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, june 2017. Photo published in the newspaper As Beiras

Remember and investigate historical events of 2017 such as:

Arquivo.pt visited 3 millions sites and collected 900 million files, 75TB in total, so you can acess the memory of past events.

Librarians as web curators in universities

4th meeting BES

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.

Workflow for the preservation of institutional web sites (fig. 1) was suggested as a guide for anyone to be able to care for and preserve quality the pages of own organization.

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.

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Fig. 1 – Workflow to preserve institutional websites (PDF, in Portuguese)

Java/Linux expert to collaborate with Arquivo.pt

The ROSSIO Project-  Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities has an open call for 1 position to collaborate with Arquivo.pt.

Call is open until June 13th, 2019.

Check for application details at the links below.

Main tasks

  • Development of large-scale distributed computer systems;
  • Analysis, planning and operation of computer services;
  • Corrective and evolutive maintenance of software;
  • Interaction with scientific and technical communities to establish collaborations and identify requirements.

Application details