Last updated on May 27th, 2026 at 11:34 am
Arquivo.pt is collaborating with the Bridges “Ponte Cultural”, in CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades of Universidade de Évora (Portugal).
Arquivo.pt’s contribution consists of providing educational content on the preservation of content published on the Internet and curating special collections related to the project’s thematic focus, such as women, immigration, and regional content from the Alentejo in the blogosphere.
The BRIDGES, project, led by Principal Investigator María Zozaya, is a work held at University of Évora funded by PRR after a Portuguese National Contest by PLANAPP-FCT on Scicence for Policy (S4P25-LT 24: BRIDGES). Work “developed under the Science4Policy 2025, an anual Science for Policy Project call, an initiative promoted by Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies in partnership with the Foundation for Science and Technology, financed by Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan”.
1st International Seminar “Women in Focus”
On March 17 and 18, an international seminar titled “Women in Focus: From Narrative to Representation in Language, Art, Heritage, and the Digital World” was held.
Arquivo.pt participated in the online session with a presentation titled “Women’s Visibility on the Web: A Mirror of Society Since the 1990s.” The presentation demonstrated how the archive contains historical web content that is useful for studying women’s issues. Three research projects that utilized Arquivo.pt were highlighted, namely:
- Existo.pt. Representation of Women Artists in the National Press, by Cláudia Sevivas and Miguel Boavida, 2nd place-winner of the 2023 Arquivo.pt Award
- Public Discourses on Private Violence, a work by Zélia de Macedo Teixeira, third-place winner of the 2019 Arquivo.pt Award
- Feminicído à vista (Femicide in plain sight), by Paula Fortuna, available on GitHub
As part of this initiative, Arquivo.pt is compiling a thematic collection on Portuguese women who have made significant contributions to culture, art, and science. The list of URLs will be available on the open data portal Dados.gov.
Materials of the online session
2nd International Seminar “I have a dream”
From April 15 to 17, the 2nd International Seminar of the BRIDGES Project was held, entitled: «I have a dream. À luz da diversidade: arte, cultura, políticas públicas e mundo digital» (In the Light of Diversity – Art, Culture, Public Policy, and the Digital World).
Erik Bran Marino and Rafael Prezado, doctoral students at the University of Évora, presented Narrative Monitoring: Analysis of Conspiracy Theories on Population Replacement in the Portuguese Web Archive (1996–2021).”
On the Narrative Monitor website, one can view the results and take a quiz.
The project “Narrative Monitoring” is one of the winners of the 2025 Arquivo.pt Award, having placed third. It was developed by the CIDEHUS research team, consisting of Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado, Ana Sofia Ribeiro, and Renata Vieira. It serves as an example of how Arquivo.pt is used in a research context.
The digital curator of Arquivo.pt addressed the topic “Data on Multiracial Diversity at Arquivo.pt,” demonstrating how the web has served as a space for freedom of expression and for self-affirmation or advocacy.
The work of archiving the Web and preserving its memory, in turn, requires initiative and community participation. Several international and national examples of this “activist” aspect of Web archiving were cited:
- Documenting the Now (USA)
- Archiving the Black Web (USA)
- SUCHO – Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (Ukraine)
- Collection of blogs from Israel and Palestina (Israel)
- The Frisian web archived (The Netherlands)
- Blogs Sapo (Portugal)
As part of this session, Arquivo.pt is compiling a thematic collection on migration and the PRCT (Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories in Europe), based on the 150 search terms used in Erik Bran Marino’s research.
Materials of the online session
- Program
- Slides
- Video (soon on the Inclusive Cultural Bridges channel)
3rd International Seminar “Invisible barriers? Embracing diversity”
On May 13, 14, and 15, the third seminar, Invisible Limitations? Inclusion of Diversity Through Art, Culture, and the Digital World was held, focusing on the inclusion of intergenerational groups, the elderly, disadvantaged individuals, people with disabilities, and those with neurodivergent conditions (TDAH/ADHD, TEA).
Arquivo.pt participated in the online session with a guest expert, José Miguel Nogueira, a professor, member of CIES-iscte, and Principal Investigator of the Self-Determination & Inclusion by Theater Project (SDIT). José Miguel Nogueira spoke about this European project in which theater has made an exceptional contribution to the inclusion of people with autism. Finally, he challenged the audience to rethink the way they interact with people with autism.
As a special contribution to this session, the digital curator of Arquivo.pt identified and published a list of websites belonging to non-governmental organizations for people with disabilities that are registered with the Instituto Nacioanal de Reabilitação.
The topic of accessibility and the benefits it brings to society as a whole was given special attention during the presentation.
