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We preserved the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017

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Last updated on August 5th, 2024 at 05:05 pm

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 after the campaign period, using the list of 410 Web pages suggested by the community and 13 887 web pages found automatically using search engines.

The manual identification process originated a list of 337 addresses which documented candidacies for the 2017 Municipal Elections. Note that 46% of these addresses referenced the social media platform Facebook.com. Much of this content of national interest could not be preserved because this foreign private company does not allow it.

The final result was an archive of 2 265 887 Web resources (360 GB).

Among the preserved web pages are the official sites of the candidates, news, blogs and articles with personal opinions about the elections.

The Arquivo.pt respects an embargo period of 1 year, and for that reason this collection will only be available by the end of 2018.

Meanwhile, you can consult the preserved pages about the previous elections of 2013, such as:

We would like to thank all the volunteers that collaborated with this initiative.

2017 Local Elections: We Need Your Help!

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Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 05:55 pm

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 because they appear and disappear quickly. Moreover, they are often exclusively referenced through printed media (e.g. posters).

That’s why your collaboration is essential!

To help, simply add addresses of pages or sites related to the Municipal Elections of 2017 through the following link:

Suggesting only 1 address related to your location will make a valuable contribution.

Can you help?

If you have any questions, please contact us.

We archived the Web pages of the Portuguese Parliamentary Elections of 2015!

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Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 05:58 pm

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 made 4 crawls, during and after the election campaign period, using the list of 127 Web pages suggested by the community, archiving a total of 2 802 407 Web resources, that occupy 274 GB.

It were collected Web pages such as the ones from the running political parties, news in the media about the elections, blogs, opinion articles, and satirical political Web pages.

The Arquivo.pt respects an embargo period of 1 year, and for that reason the archived collection will only be avaliable by the end of 2016.

However you can consult now some archived Web pages from the previous Portuguese Parliamentary Elections such as:

We would like to thank all the volunteers that helped with this initiative.
Now we need your collaboration suggesting Web pages about the Portuguese Presidencial Elections.
Can we count on you?