Grants to collaborate with Arquivo.ptApril 19, 2018
The ROSSIO Project- Ciências Sociais, Artes e Humanidades has an open call for 3 grants in colaboration with Arquivo.pt. The call is open until the 10th of May 2018. Check for application details at the links below Digital Curator / Information …
New API to search Arquivo.ptMarch 2, 2018
On February 23, 2018 Arquivo.pt launched a new version called Zeus. This new version includes a new programming interface (Arquivo.pt API) and improvements in the mobile interfaces. Arquivo.pt API: the oficial API The new application programming …
Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018: Call for submissions!February 8, 2018
Applications for the Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018 are open until May 4. The 1st prize is 10 000 EURO, individual or group applications can be submitted about any theme. The only requirement is to use Arquivo.pt as the main source of information. To apply, …
How to improve an online service (video)?February 8, 2018
Arquivo.pt recommendations to improve the quality of online services This presentation provides an overview of the architecture and functioning of the system that supports the Arquivo.pt web archive. It shares the main lessons learned from the …
We preserved the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017January 19, 2018
Arquivo.pt performed 2 web crawls of information related with the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017. We appealed the community to contribute with suggestions of relevant Web pages so that we could preserve them. The 2 crawls occurred during and …
Videos, slides and photos of Arquivo.pt Event 2017December 29, 2017
On the 8th November we will held the 1st Arquivo Event at the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon to celebrate 10 years of project start. We published all videos of the Event on the Educast educational portal. Keynote talks: why and how to preserve the …
Arquivo.pt goes mobile!December 12, 2017
On November 28 2017, Arquivo.pt launched a new version named Afrodite. The main novelty is the adaptation of user interfaces to mobile devices. On the other hand, it also enables access to the mobile versions of the preserved sites. Arquivo.pt began …
Arquivo.pt Award 2018 was announcedDecember 5, 2017
During the Arquivo.pt Event, the release of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2018 was announced. The purpose of the first edition of this Prize is to foster innovative research or application of resources preserved from the Web, through the research and access …
Celebrating the International Digital Preservation DayNovember 30, 2017
Arquivo.pt joins the international celebration of the first International Day of Digital Preservation (30th November) by contributing with: A free training course on Web Preservation The post Web preservation demands access A new release of its …
Free training about Web Preservation on the Digital Preservation DayNovember 15, 2017
The International Day of Digital Preservation is celebrated on the 30th November. Arquivo.pt joins this international celebration by offering one of its free training courses on Web Preservation. Training objective Learn how to get the most out of …
Arquivo.pt Event on the 8th November: Register now!October 13, 2017
On the 8th November we will hold the 1st Arquivo Event at the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon and we would like to invite you to celebrate with us 10 years of project start. Keynote talks: why and how to preserve the Web? José Pacheco Pereira, this …
Vacancy at the Advanced Services!October 6, 2017
FCT-FCCN’s Advanced Services Area, which includes Arquivo.pt and the Video Services, has opened a vacancy for complementary training in infrastructure and services for science management (scholarship grant). The activities to be carried out …
2017 Local Elections: We Need Your Help!August 22, 2017
We have been emphasizing during our presentations that Arquivo.pt requires YOUR collaboration to preserve information published on the Web related to Elections. Campaign websites are historically relevant. However, they are difficult to identify …
New informative site of Arquivo.pt!August 3, 2017
On August 2, 2017, a new version of the informative website about Arquivo.pt (available on sobre.arquivo.pt/en/) was launched. This new version consisted mainly on the adoption of the WordPress platform as replacement for an obsolete version of …
Investiga XXI research project has startedJuly 3, 2017
Investiga XXI research project is publicly sharing the first contributions based on Arquivo.pt. The main goal is to promote the use of Arquivo.pt as a source and tool for scientific research. The ongoing projects adopt perspectives from the Digital …
Arquivo.pt improves advanced searchJune 27, 2017
Arquivo.pt launched a new version on June 23, 2017 called Venus, in which the Advanced Search operators were improved. It stands out the improvement of the search operator site that allows to restrict searches to certain preserved sites. For …
Researchers visited Arquivo.ptJune 8, 2017
On May 23rd a multidisciplinary group of researchers visited the infrastructure of Arquivo.pt in Lisbon. The researchers learned how Arquivo.pt works, proving that it is a useful service for scientific research. Check our free …
Arquivo.pt preserved websites about Research & Development projects funded by the EUApril 10, 2017
Arquivo.pt automatically identified R&D project websites to preserve their content. It preserved 52 million web files (7 TB) related to science for future access. R&D websites publish valuable information but are being lost Websites about …
Blogs that stand for History: training offered by Arquivo.ptApril 7, 2017
“How can my blog stay in the Digital History of Portugal?” Is the starting question for this meeting dedicated to digital preservation. On the 23rd February 2017, the FCCN unit of the FCT, in Lisbon, responsible for Arquivo.pt, hosted a …
Training about Arquivo.pt in April at UTAD, Vila Real, PortugalApril 3, 2017
This training will take place during the event Jornadas FCCN 2017 at UTAD from 19 to 21 April. Training agenda This training course will take place at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 20 de abril, 14:30-16:00. Arquivo.pt: an …
Sites crawled in 2015 are now available through Arquivo.pt!February 21, 2017
The information collected from the Web during 2015 is now avaliable in Arquivo.pt! Remember and investigate historical events of 2015 such as the terrorist attacks at Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan or the Greek crisis. Now you can acess 835 …
New release of Arquivo.pt with improved replay quality!January 31, 2017
Arquivo.pt released a new version of its service on the 25th of January 2017. The new version named PyCDX introduces significant improvements in the replay quality of the preserved pages. These improvements resulted from the adoption of …
Arquivo.pt – new versionNovember 11, 2016
Arquivo.pt released a new version on the 7th of November 2016. The new version named Hercules presents design improvements, specially in the user interface for the replay of preserved Web pages, such as: Minimize and Maximize options for the toolbar …
Arquivo.pt in IcelandApril 26, 2016
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 11th to the 15th of April 2016. Arquivo.pt contributed with 5 …
- We archived the Web pages of the Portuguese Presidential Elections of 2016!
February 18, 2016
The Arquivo.pt made 2 crawls of Web pages related with the Portuguese Presidential Elections of 2016. We had appealed to the community contribution by suggesting Web pages related with the Presidential Elections of 2016 in order to archive it. We …
- We issued a press release about Arquivo.pt
January 15, 2016
On the 12th January 2016 we have issued a press release about Arquivo.pt, where we explain our service, its history, present, colaborations and future challenges. The Arquivo.pt is a free of charge service, that allows the search of Web archived …
- Ask us for free dissemination materials!
November 5, 2015
Arquivo.pt – the Portuguese Web Archive is a nonprofit public service that requires dissemination. We produced the following dissemination materials: Flyers Ecological pens Posters Bookmarks (in Portuguese and English) Stickers Your …
- Fénix: the new release of Arquivo.pt!
November 5, 2015
We are pleased to announce that we launched a new release of Arquivo.pt – the Portuguese Web Archive, after two years of suspension in the development of the service. The name given to this release was opportunely Fénix (Phoenix). 20 cases …
- We archived the Web pages of the Portuguese Parliamentary Elections of 2015!
September 22, 2015
The Arquivo.pt made 4 crawls of Web pages related with the Portuguese Parliamentary Elections of 2015. We had appealed to the community contribution by suggesting Web pages related with the Parliamentary Elections of 2015 in order to archive it. We …
- A first attempt to archive the .EU domain
August 13, 2015
The Portuguese Web Archive attempts to archive .EU web sites. The .EU domain is commonly used to reference sites related to Europe. The strategy adopted to archive the World Wide Web has been delegating the responsibility of each domain to the …
- Recommendations for web authors
August 6, 2015
The Portuguese Web Archive published guidelines to enable the creation of contents for preservation. By following these recommendations, authors are contributing to enable the access and preservation of their contents for the future. It is …
- 2nd best paper at LA-Web
August 6, 2015
The paper “Trends in Web characteristics” authored by the Portuguese Web Archive team received an award at the conference LA-Web 2009. The paper Trends in Web characteristics written by João Miranda and Daniel Gomes, was distinguished as …
- rARC Linux version now available
August 6, 2015
rARC version for Linux is now available. RARC is a pioneer system being developed within the Portuguese Web Archive project. Its main goal is to enable Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to help preserve web contents for …
- rARC Windows 7 version now available
August 6, 2015
rARC version for Windows 7 is now available. RARC is a pioneer system being developed within the Portuguese Web Archive project. Its main goal is to enable Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to help preserve web contents …
- Copy of the Portuguese Web kept by volunteers
August 6, 2015
Voluntarily, rARC contributors have offered enough disk space to save a backup copy of the Portuguese Web. rARC has now more than 130 contributors providing a total of 2 700 gigabytes. The amount of disk space offered corresponds to the total disk …
- Search over the past Web is available
August 6, 2015
The Portuguese Web Archive released a service that enables search and access to web contents that are no longer available online. Portuguese Web Archive This beta version of the service includes 130 million contents of the Portuguese web archived …
- 2005 contents provided by the National Library can now be searched
August 6, 2015
The contents provided by the National Library of Portugal were successfully integrated and can be searched through our experimental search system. In 2005 the National Library of Portugal in collaboration with INESC conducted a series of web crawls …
- Scientific study about Web accessibility conducted in collaboration with the Archive
August 6, 2015
This research, conducted by the HCIM group from the University of Lisbon in collaboration with the Portuguese Web Archive, presents a measurement of the Portuguese Web accessibility for people with disabilities. The paper Web Not For All: A Large …
- One-click access to a page history
August 6, 2015
The “History of this page” button is a tool that enables you to access directly to the history of the page you are visiting. Example of the historical archive of the FCCN web page Just click the button that will be placed in your …
- Scientific study presents a search log analysis of a search engine
August 6, 2015
This research presents a characterization of the information-seeking behaviour of the users of a Portuguese web search engine, based on the analysis of its logs. The paper A Search Log Analysis of a Portuguese Web Search Engine, by Miguel Costa and …
- Scientific study presents a characterization of the information needs of Web Archive users
August 6, 2015
This research focuses on what the users intents are and which topics are most interesting to them. Three instruments were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data: search logs, an online questionnaire and a laboratory study. The …
- Web archivists: please answer 3 quick questions regarding resources committed to web archiving
August 6, 2015
We are conducting a preliminary study regarding the efforts being committed world-wide to web archiving. If you are a web archivist, please send us your answers to these 3 quick questions: What is the name of your web archive initiative (please …
- Characterizing Search Behavior in Web Archives: we have published a video about a study we performed
August 6, 2015
Talk about the search behavior characterization of web archive users, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive. The presentation focuses on the following points: Web archiving Search log analysis How do users search? Time …
- Paper was considered one of the best at CIWAI-2008
August 6, 2015
The paper about the archive and measurement of the Portuguese web was considered one of the best of the CIWAI-2008 conference. The paper Arquivo e medição da web portuguesa (in Portuguese) about the archive and measurement of the Portuguese web was …
- New software for Web Archive Information Retrieval
August 6, 2015
A new software package is available to facilitate research our test collection for Web Archive Information Retrieval. The researcher Zeynep Pehlivan developed and published in open-source a software to facilitate research over the test collection …
- Open position at the Portuguese Web Archive
August 6, 2015
Open position at the Portuguese Web Archive project The Portuguese Web Archive announces an open position for a gradutate/MSc in Computer Science with experience in Java and Web usability. Speaking and writing skills in Portuguese are required. The …
- New member of the PWA
August 6, 2015
David Cruz is the newest member of the Portuguese Web Archive team. The opened position at the Portuguese Web Archive was filled by David Cruz. David is 25 years old, he got his bachelor and master degrees in Informatics at the University of Lisbon. …
- Follow interesting references about web archiving on Twitter!
August 6, 2015
The PWA maintains a Twitter containing interesting references related to web archiving. Follow the latest updates about web archiving on Twitter! …
- Anyone can suggest a Portuguese site to be archived
August 6, 2015
The PWA released a service that enables anyone to suggest a Portuguese site to be archived. We particularly need your help, to identify relevant Portuguese sites hosted outside the country domain .PT (e.g. .COM, .NET, .EU). Suggest a Portuguese site …
- Our new article on Web Archiving
August 6, 2015
The Importance of Web Archives for Humanities Daniel Gomes and Miguel Costa, The Importance of Web Archives for Humanities, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Abril 2014 (bibtex). …
- Lend a little disk space to preserve the Web
August 6, 2015
Anyone can contribute to preserve the information published on the Web. You just need to install a simple application on your computer. The information published on the web is a resource of great historical value that must be preserved for future …
- Paper presented at EPIA 2009
August 6, 2015
An Updated Portrait of the Portuguese Web presented at EPIA 2009 The paper An Updated Portrait of the Portuguese Web, by João Miranda and Daniel Gomes, was presented at the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009) in Aveiro. …
- Paper will be presented at LA-Web on November 11
August 6, 2015
The paper Trends in Web characteristics will be presented at LA-Web 2009, on November 11, 2009. The paper Trends in Web Characteristics, by João Miranda and Daniel Gomes, will be presented at the 7th Latin American Web Congress (LA-Web), in Merida, …
- Session at ISCTE “Archive.pt as an infrastructure for research in Social Sciences and Humanities
March 24, 2015
Session at ISCTE (Lisbon) “Archive.pt as an infrastructure for research in Social Sciences and Humanities” Register! Session page Jornadas FCCN 2015 site Poster to disseminate session (in Portuguese) You missed it? No problem. Here are …
- PhD “Information Search in Web Archives”: slides and video
March 23, 2015
Our former colleague Miguel Costa defended his PhD thesis at the University of Lisbon on the 4th November 2014. The slides and video are available! PhD thesis “Information Search in Web Archives” Presentation video Slides of the …
- Portuguese Web Archive – a Memory Infrastructure @DLM2014
November 14, 2014
Presentation about the Archive.pt service and the importance of web archiving to preserve the memory of Humanity. Presentation on Thursday 17:15 (13 November) in Lisbon at DLM Forum – Making the Information Governance Landscape in Europe See …
- Ipres’2013: Five new communications about the Portuguese Web Archive
September 30, 2014
The Portuguese Web Archive activities were presented during Ipres’2013, a scientific conference on the preservation of digital objects, that took place in Lisbon from 2 to 6 September. The following communications about the Portuguese Web …
- System administrator for the Portugese Web Archive
September 28, 2014
The Portuguese Web Archive (www.archive.pt) is looking for an administrator for its large-scale distributed system. The system administrator we are looking to strengthen our team will be in charge of operating and maintaining the quality of the …
- It’s now easier to download the PWA software.
December 17, 2013
All the source-code, binary and documentation files can now be downloaded through a set of large compressed files. The software developed to create the Portuguese Web Archive is available as a free open-source project hosted at Google Code under the …
- The Portuguese Web Archive joined the International Internet Preservation Consortium
December 10, 2013
The Foundation for the National Scientific Computing, home of the Portuguese Web Archive, joined IIPC. The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is a worldwide consortium that joins 44 organizations from 25 countries. The IIPC is …
- How to create a billion-scale searchable web archive
July 2, 2013
The Portuguese Web Archive published a study that contributes with an overview of the lessons learned while developing the Portuguese Web Archive, focusing on web data acquisition, ranking search results and user interface design. Several …
- WWW 2013: Search the Past with the Portuguese Web Archive
May 16, 2013
The Portuguese Web Archive (PWA) is at the World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a demo session. The demo at WWW 2013 presents the Portuguese Web Archive, which enables search over 1.6 billion files archived from 1996 …
- Web ephemerality and the Portuguese Web Archive
April 22, 2013
Invented to exchange data between scientists, the web is now used to share publications and knowledge. But how much of this will still be available in years to come? Read the full article on page 25 of the GÉANT CONNECT magazine. …
- New video: “The Portuguese Web Archive: An overview”
March 8, 2013
The Portuguese Web Archive preserves and provides access to information published on the web of main interest to the Portuguese community. It provides a free and publicly available full-text search service over 1 billion web archived since 1996. …
- New video: “The Portuguese Web Archive and the open access to scientific knowledge”
March 8, 2013
Web archiving contributes to empower open-access to science. There is a growing amount of open access scientific knowledge published on the Web. This video debates the importance of web archiving to empower open access to science. Watch video …
- 1 billion contents in the Portuguese Web Archive
January 13, 2013
From the 1.2 billion archived contents, 1 billion (10^9) have been indexed and are now available to the public. The available contents were collected between 1996 and 2010. Search the past How to supply historical contents to the Portuguese Web …
- Come and meet the Portuguese Web Archive at the event «Presente no Futuro» in Lisbon
December 11, 2012
We archive the reality of our days so that in 2030 we are able to study our history. The Portuguese Web Archive will participate in the event «Presente no Futuro» (Present at the Future) – the portuguese in 2030, on the 14th and 15th of …
- Satisfaction surveys of the Portuguese Web Archive at Jornadas FCCN 2012
July 6, 2012
The demonstration session of the Portuguese Web Archive aimed to bring participants to experience, in an informal and relaxed way, the Archive and its features in order to identify faults and points to correct, and record users’ suggestions to …
- Search service available 100% of the time in the first trimester of 2012
June 15, 2012
The Portuguese Web Archive was always available during this time, with no service breakdown. The distributed and redundant architecture of the system developed by the Archive aims at keeping the search service available for as long as possible. Try …
- Technical report documents the creation of a searchable web archive
May 29, 2012
This report presents some of the work developed to create an efficient and effective web archive service, from data acquisition to user interface design. The results of this research were applied to create the Portuguese Web Archive that is publicly …
- Technical report analyses query suggestion for Web archives
March 9, 2012
Misspelled queries are a common problem in search engines and Web archives. This work is the result of the development and integration of a spell checking and query suggestion feature in the Portuguese Web Archive. The integration of the developed …
- I. P. Santarém, 7th and 8th Feb.: learn more about the Portuguese Web Archive
January 24, 2012
Come and meet the Archive’s team. The Portuguese Web Archive will be presented at Jornadas FCCN on 7th and 8th of February 2012, with the following activities (in Portuguese): Demonstração do Arquivo da Web Portuguesa Arquivo da Web …
- New design of the Portuguese Web Archive
January 13, 2012
The redesign aims to improve the user experience in navigation and visualization of search results. Search the past Send us your opinion …
- The Portuguese Web Archive is available via OpenSearch
December 19, 2011
The Portuguese Web Archive provides an application programming interface which enables searching using the OpenSearch protocol. This interface makes it easier to develop tools that use the Archive’s search features. The search results are …
- Scientific study analyses worldwide Web archiving initiatives
November 15, 2011
This research presents a global and updated overview of Web archiving initiatives. The analysis of the initiatives provided several statistics, such as the volume of archived data or the number of people engaged. The paper A survey on web archiving …
- Portuguese Web Archive available as open source
October 14, 2011
Code is available through Google Code The Portuguese Web Archive team has written over 72,000 lines of code to improve the tools provided by the Archive-access project. The code is now available as a free open source project to be used and improved …
- We reached 1 200 million archived contents
August 29, 2011
Numbers from July 2011 about volume of archived data. We reached 1 200 million contents archived since 1996, 79% of them are indexed We save 62% of disk space by using DeDuplicator on our daily crawls We estimated to have disk space until 2017 to …
- rARC service suspended
August 19, 2011
The rARc project is suspended since July, 2011. The project for collaborative preservation named rARC started in 2007 within the Portuguese Web Archive. Contributions: Successful proof of concept and project in production Master thesis of André …
- Our beta-version search service was available 100% of the time
August 19, 2011
Data from April to June, 2011 Our search is supported by a distributed system composed by 111 multi-thread processes We have 61 computers: 1.8 TB of memory; 122 processors (488 cores); 348 hard discs (320 TB). Try our search ove the past! …
- 93% of the searches are answered in less than 5 seconds
August 19, 2011
Data from April to June, 2011 93% of the full-text searches performed on the Portuguese Web Archive were responded in less than 5 seconds. 95% of the URL searches were answered in less than 5 seconds. 73% of the user clicks are on the first page of …
- Video about the Portuguese Web Archive
May 17, 2011
The Portuguese Web Archive was presented at the Jornadas FCCN, on the 9th February, 2011. The presentation focused on the following points: Motivation for the Web archiving topic Portuguese Web Archive project status report Services available to the …
- Usability in practice: we have published a video about our experience
May 17, 2011
We share our experience with usability processes used to solve problems in the development of the Portuguese Web Archive. The presentation focuses on the following points: What is usability? The Portuguese Web Archive Usability problems and …
- Trends in the evolution of the Web: we have published a video about our study
May 17, 2011
Talk about the evolution of Web characteristics, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive. The presentation focuses on the following points: The Web Web Archiving and crawlers Web characteristics and its evolution within 5 …
- Collection from 1996 to 2000 can now be searched
May 17, 2011
A collection of contents from the .PT domain between 1996 and 2000, provided by the Internet Archive, has been successfully integrated in the Portuguese Web Archive. Search it now Sample pages from the collection: Governing in Dialogue – …
- Scientific study characterizes search behaviour in a Web archive
April 8, 2011
This research presents a search behaviour characterization of Web archive users. Detailed statistics about the users’ sessions, queries, terms and clicks were analised from search logs. The paper Characterizing Search Behavior in Web Archives, …
- Web archiving initiatives: we created a page on Wikipedia
March 31, 2011
Following the survey performed to draw a picture of web archiving worldwide, we created a Wikipedia page named “List of Web Archiving Initiatives”. We hope that the published information can be collaboratively kept up-to-date by the …
- Collection provided by photojournalist has been successfully integrated
February 7, 2011
A collection of journalistic pieces written by Dinis Manuel Alves published on the Web between 1997 and 2003 was supplied by the author to the Portuguese Web Archive. We are pleased to announce that this information has been successfully integrated …
