RESAW 2025 conference had the participation of Arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt was present at the 6th RESAW Conference for researchers in the Digital Humanities, Media and Communication and other areas, on the theme of ‘The Datafied Web’, which took place at the University of Siegen, Germany, from 4 to 6 June 2025.

RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) is an informal initiative that brings together researchers who use web archives in their research. RESAW’s first conference was in 2015, and it is now held every two years.

Initially, RESAW brought together European researchers, but now it brings together researchers from all over the world and has become a unique forum of its kind. In 2025, it had more than 100 participants. It brings together the best in the field of using web archives in research.

Niels Brügger, Professor of Media and Communication at Aaharus University in Denmark, has been its main driving force for 10 years.

Other leading researchers with studies on web archives are: Valerie Schafer from the University of Luxembourg, Jane Winters from the University of London, Anne Helmond from the University of Utrecht, Susan Aasman from the University of Groningen, Sophie Gebeil from Aix-Marseille University and Ian Millingan from the University of Waterloo.

This year’s theme “The Datafied Web” addressed the issue of the datification of the Web, from its beginnings in the 1990s to the present day, marked by massive data processing and the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Why would a web archive take part in an academic meeting?

Arquivo.pt has been a regular participant in RESAW since 2019, as it wants to make itself increasingly known as a service for national and international researchers.

Thanks to participation in international events such as RESAW, several publications have appeared that use and refer to Arquivo.pt. Any researcher with Internet access can search the information preserved on Arquivo.pt, use the APIs, process information or train their models.

We invite Portuguese researchers to take part in this meeting, as we have been the only Portuguese presence in several editions. We have an accessible web archive, ready to use, which is not the case in other countries. We would like to see researchers in the fields of Digital Humanities and Media and Communication in Portugal using Arquivo.pt more often and actively participating in meetings like RESAW.

Arquivo.pt’s contribution to RESAW 2025

Arquivo.pt contributed two presentations to the 2025 edition of the RESAW meeting, held at the University of Siegen. The first was about the Arquivo.pt APIs and their application in a research context, by Vasco Rato. The second was about the open datasets and lists of websites on topics and events that Arquivo.pt has prepared to help researchers start exploring archived information in greater depth.