Millions of images from the past!

August 23, 2022April 1, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 23rd, 2022 at 04:21 pm

Arquivo.pt launched a new version named Dionisius, on March 24th 2021.

1.8 billion images from the past Web are now searchable on Arquivo.pt.

Supporting large-scale image search over Web archives is a world-wide innovation.

To learn more about the development of this system, watch the video “Arquivo.pt image search 2020-2021“.

Try for example, how a search for images about “golf” returns images gathered from archived websites.

Results page from a search for the term “golf” on Arquivo.pt.

The new image search API also allows you to create new works to apply for the Arquivo.pt Awards.

Help us to improve!

To help us, just try to perform an image search on Arquivo.pt using any device (e.g. laptop, mobile phone, tablet).

If you have any comment, please contact us!

Remember to always send us the URL of the page you are referring to.

To know more

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

October 26, 2023April 26, 2019 by admin

Last updated on October 26th, 2023 at 10:19 am

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

Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém

Biblioteca do ISCTE, Lisboa

B-Lounge, Universidade do Minho Library / B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library

B-Lounge, Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho / B-Lounge Universidade do Minho Library

Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Biblioteca da ESCE do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Biblioteca da Reitoria da Universidade do Algarve

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituo da Educação

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação

Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

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

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

New version of Arquivo.pt (WARC release)

October 18, 2018 by admin

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on October 16 called WARC Release.

This new version has as main novelty the support of textual indexing of web contents stored in the WARC format .

The document parsing library was also updated to use Apache-Tika.

Technical Details

Arquivo.pt has a new functionality in the reproduction of preserved pages that allows to access Technical Details about an archived page.

To do this, simply click on the circular icon with an “i”. Some playback metadata will be displayed on the page. Try it!

Report a bug

Arquivo.pt has added the function Report a Bug to its interfaces to facilitate the identification of problems with the help of the users.

To do so, simply click on the cockroach aka bug icon, which will forward you to a contact form already filled with the link to the page where the error occurred.

Report a Bug available clicking on the “bug icon”.

If you find any error, in Arquivo.pt please contact us.

More news

Arquivo.pt is now served through a secure connection, following the protocol HTTPS (https://arquivo.pt).
New logo of Arquivo.pt.
It has now become possible to insert multiple sites in advanced search.
Cross Site Scripting Security Vulnerabilities Fixed.
Fixed issues with indexing for playing back preserved pages (invalid CDXJ indexes).
Fixed problems in the application logs on the Archivo.pt servers.