From March 23 to 26, Lisbon hosted the File Not Found event, organized by the Goethe-Institut. Over the course of four days, the initiative brought together national and international experts to explore the role of archives in the digital age, particularly their cultural, social, and political value in a constantly evolving digital world. The discussion […]
On World Digital Preservation Day, Arquivo.pt is promoting an online session dedicated to annotating search results on Arquivo.pt. On World Digital Preservation Day, Arquivo.pt promoted an online session dedicated to annotating search results on Arquivo.pt, on 6 November, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The following topics were covered: i) Access as a priority – […]
Arquivo.pt carried out a special collection of content published online in connection with the Legislative Elections of 18 May 2025. More than 8,000 unique pages were recorded, before and after the elections, resulting in around 250 Gigabytes of information. This collection includes news items from the media, party websites and other citizen publications documenting this […]
Arquivo.pt took part in the workshop entitled “Digital preservation: tools and practices”, promoted by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, on the afternoon of May 7, 2025. Moderated by Inês Santos, we highlight the initial panel with excellent speeches by Moisés Rockembach (University of Coimbra), Humberto Innarelli (Unicamp, Brazil) and Daniel Gomes […]
Professor José Borbinha, eArchiving workshop, 25 February 2025, at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (José Tribolet Room) Arquivo.pt took part in the eArchiving Portugal workshop, which was held at the Instituto Superior Técnico on 25 February 2025, at the invitation of Professor José Borbinha, one of the first people to do web archiving in […]
Let's talk about preservation and access! On November 7, 2024, the New Paths to Information Preservation and Access Meeting was held, organised jointly by Arquivo.pt and the Arquivo de Ciência e Tecnologia, the first located on Avenida do Brasil and the latter on Avenida D. Carlos I, in Lisbon, both services of the Fundação para […]
The month of September marks the beginning of a year's work and also the end of many websites that are hopelessly lost. Remodelled or shut down without making a good copy of their content, this is how historic websites are lost unnecessarily. There are tools that allow websites to be saved immediately by the organisations […]
Paralympic Games. Miguel Monteiro, gold medallist, returns to Lisbon (News on the RTP website, 2 September, selected for international collection) Arquivo.pt has contributed to the international collection of web pages on the Summer Olympics Games taking place in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024 and is doing the same for the Summer Paralympics […]
May 18, International Museum Day, was celebrated all over the country with free admission, guided tours, entertainment and exhibitions related to memory and heritage. Arquivo.pt contributed with an exhibition of old web pages, entitled “Digital Memory through the Internet of the Past”, which was on display at one of the stands at the National Coach […]
The Digital Preservation Coalition Awards The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is dedicated to promoting digital preservation and associated best practices. The DPC Awards promote exemplary and innovative digital preservation use cases from all over the world. The Arquivo.pt team submitted two applications to the DPC Awards 2024 in the categories of "Safeguarding the Digital Legacy" […]