Dissemination – sobre.arquivo.pt

Thematic collections of websites to explore on Arquivo.pt

September 18, 2026September 18, 2026 by Ricardo Basílio

During the month of August, Arquivo.pt published 10 thematic datasets on the Dados.Gov, the public administration’s open data portal, and improved the descriptions and metadata for the approximately 70 datasets made available to the community.

Cinema, sports federations e firefighter associations, and fire departments are just three examples of topics you can explore using the thematic lists of websites provided by Arquivo.pt.

Did you know there are more than 60 film festivals in Portugal? What are their official websites or pages? What historical content has been preserved by Arquivo.pt?

The datasets provide a broader and faster overview of the topic, as they are focused on specific websites.

Datasets published on DADOS.GOV, the public administration’s open data portal

Data schema and open formats

Thematic lists of websites use the same data structure to present information in a table. This makes it possible to combine multiple lists into a single one covering thousands of websites.

The lists also allow you to sort the data by subject, location, or alphabetical order, whichever is most useful and depending on the available information.

The data is available in several open formats:

PDF—a format for sharing and immediate viewing on mobile devices; if you’re curious about a dataset, start by opening the PDF version;
ODT—a non-proprietary spreadsheet format, similar to Excel, that can contain multiple sheets in a single document;
CSV—comma-separated values in plain text, compatible with a wide variety of applications.
Other formats—TSV, tab-separated values in plain text, useful for preventing data breakage where commas are present (for example, cells containing sentences).

The data structure for lists of organizational websites does not apply to other datasets also available on Dados.Gov, such as election-related datasets.

Preserving the history of institutions and organizations

Identifying websites belonging to entities and organizations helps to better preserve digital memory.

We found websites without a preserved history in Arquivo.pt (primarily .com, .net, etc.), websites that are inadvertently blocked, and websites that require further effort.

There are also organizations, groups, and other initiatives that do not have an official website and base their online presence on social media.

The goal is to raise awareness within the community and promote the preservation of content published on the Web. If this content is not preserved, it will disappear over time, and with it, the record of so many things that happen in Portugal.

New challenges to the Arquivo.pt Award

Each thematic collection of websites offers an authentic journey through Portugal and the diverse aspects of Portuguese society.

Since 2018, amazing projects have been created based on content from Arquivo.pt, but there are still plenty of themes left to explore.

Apply to Arquivo.pt Award!

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Arquivo.pt at the librarians and archivists national meeting APBAD in Porto

July 3, 2026July 2, 2026 by Ricardo Basílio

Arquivo.pt participated in the 15th librarians and archivists national meeting of the APBAD, held at Universidade Portucalense – Infante D. Henrique, from June 17 to 19. The event featured a panel dedicated to digital preservation, during which several services were presented that the community can use to preserve its websites.

Under the theme “Commitment to Democracy: Dialogue, Well-Being, Inclusion,” the APBAD meeting —one of the most important gatherings of information professionals—drew more than 500 participants.

Arquivo.pt’s involvement relates to an important aspect of its mission, which is “to promote the collection and preservation of content available on the national Internet” (Decreto-Lei n.º 132/2025).

Panel: “Digital Preservation in a Municipal Context—Challenges and Potential Solutions”

Digital preservation is an increasingly important issue for public agencies. Municipalities, for example, are required to implement a digital preservation plan (Portaria n.º 112/2023, art.4º). On the other hand, digital content is scattered across many formats, systems, and even different organizations and jurisdictions.

The panelists were José Borbinha (INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa), Pedro Penteado (DGLAB, Direção de Serviços de Arquivística e Normalização), Helena Neves (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Direção Municipal de Cultura, Departamento de Património de Cultural, Divisão de Arquivo Municipal) and Ricardo Basílio (Arquivo.pt-FCCN-FCT).

Sharing knowledge, best practices, and resources is a way to accelerate the preservation of collective memory.

Website and Social Media Preservation: 5 Good Examples for 1 Solution

In this panel presentation at the APBAD meeting organized by Arquivo.pt, examples of best practices for preserving Web content were provided. They were as follows:

Perform a high-quality website harvest (once a year)
Curate websites for preservation purposes
Create website records in the catalog with a link to the history
Identify and collect external web content related to the organization’s mission
Use Arquivo.pt services in partnership

These examples were made possible by community archivists, in collaboration with Arquivo.pt, including the Arquivo Municipal de Almada, Biblioteca e Arquivo da Madeira, Arquivo Municipal de Sines.

Memory of Municipalities on the Internet

The online exhibition “Memória dos Municípios na Internet” (Memory of Municipalities on the Internet) was an initiative launched by Arquivo.pt in 2019 to highlight the value of the digital content published over time on the websites of Portugal’s 308 municipalities.

We invite all the professionals here to tour the exhibition and see how well their municipality’s website is maintained.

Data Collection Criteria for the Portuguese Web (Poster 1)

The Web is a publishing space without limits. Every day, all kinds of content are published, such as institutional information, business and industry services, content created by individuals, news from accredited media outlets, content of dubious veracity, fake news, and entertainment content. Is it possible to collect this content in a Web archive? What are the limitations?

In this poster, we outline the collection criteria used by Arquivo.pt:

.PT domain websites
Portuguese websites across all domains
National interest (Portuguese-speaking countries, European Union)
Topics of interest to the community
Public content, with no technical or legal restrictions, and no login or paywall required

We would like to highlight the criterion “topics of interest to the community,” which we use to conduct special collections, such as when we are collaborating with researchers. This was the case with a collection on artists and art galleries, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Art Library (2021), and the collection on Feminism in Portugal, in collaboration with researchers from the FEMGlocal Project (2026).

ArchivePageNow – Web Content Self-Archiving Service for Organizations and Citizens (Poster 2)

Public content can be archived using the ArchivePageNow service, which the archive provides to promote the preservation of web pages among researchers and is also useful for the general public.

A poster dedicated to ArchivePageNow served to visually illustrate the usefulness of this service.

Materials Presented at the 15th APBAD meeting

For photos of the event, visit the BAD channel on Flickr

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15º Congresso da BAD, Universidade Portucalense

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Higher education libraries mobility program returns to FCCN for the third time

June 19, 2026June 15, 2026 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on June 19th, 2026 at 02:58 pm

Visita à sala da equipa do Arquivo.pt com Vasco Rato, desenvolvedor

Texto de Dulce Correia.

No dia 29 de maio de 2026, profissionais das bibliotecas da Universidade do Minho, da Universidade do Porto e do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa participaram na 3.ª edição do Programa de Mobilidade em Bibliotecas do Ensino Superior, promovido pelo Grupo de Trabalho das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior da Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação (BAD). A iniciativa decorreu, pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, nos serviços da FCCN — unidade de serviços digitais da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) —, no campus do LNEC, em Lisboa.

On May 29, 2026, library professionals from the Universidade do Minho, da Universidade do Porto, and Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa participated in the 3rd edition of the Programa de Mobilidade em Bibliotecas do Ensino Superior (Higher Education Library Mobility Program), organized by the Grupo de Trabalho das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior (Higher Education Libraries Working Group) of the Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação (BAD). The initiative took place, for the third consecutive year, at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) on the LNEC campus in Lisbon.

Exploration of advanced services for knowledge

The initiative included a workshop dedicated to exploring advanced support services for science and higher education in Portugal, providing participants with an in-depth look at the digital ecosystem that underpins the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.

The program included thematic sessions on key tools such as the NAU platform, designed for creating and making open-access MOOCs available, as well as Arquivo.pt, where the inner workings of web content preservation for research purposes were demonstrated. Strategic services such as Educast, and Ciência ID were also presented, underscoring the FCCN’s role in supporting higher education institutions.

Tour of the Data Center and the Television and Audio Studio

During the event, participants also visited FCCN’s data center and professional studio, gaining firsthand experience with technological infrastructure that, though often invisible, is essential to ensuring the robustness, innovation, and sustainability of science and digital education.

The importance of the program for professional development

O Programa de Mobilidade (Mobility Program) visa fomentar a partilha de conhecimento, a atualização contínua de competências e o reforço do contacto entre profissionais da informação e serviços inovadores que integram o quotidiano de investigadores, docentes e estudantes. A participação das três instituições reforça a importância destas iniciativas colaborativas para o desenvolvimento profissional e para a consolidação de redes de cooperação no ensino superior em Portugal.

The Programa de Mobilidade (Mobility Program) aims to promote knowledge sharing, the continuous updating of skills, and the strengthening of ties between information professionals and the innovative services that are part of the daily lives of researchers, faculty, and students. The participation of these three institutions underscores the importance of such collaborative initiatives for professional development and for the consolidation of cooperation networks in higher education in Portugal.

Program offered by FCCN, “Advanced Services for Knowledge”

Flash interview recorded in the Estúdio FCCN

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Programa de Mobilidade em Bibliotecas do Ensino Superior na FCCN

The Bridges project at the Universidade de Évora is collaborating with Arquivo.pt

May 27, 2026April 17, 2026 by Ricardo Basílio

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.

Thematic collections to discover in the online sessions “Café with Arquivo.pt”

March 31, 2026November 27, 2025 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on March 31st, 2026 at 01:05 pm

“Café with Arquivo.pt” consists of short online sessions so that anyone can attend during working hours. Its aim is to raise awareness of Arquivo.pt and gather contributions from the community on topics related to web preservation.

In December 2025, a new series was launched dedicated to the thematic collections that Arquivo.pt publishes as datasets on the Dados.Gov open data platform. For example, websites related to theater, music, schools, parishes, elections, and other topics are preserved in the Arquivo.pt. We aim to highlight sets of websites whose history is preserved in the Arquivo.pt to improve their preservation.

Next session

April 15 – Replacing “Coffee with Arquivo.pt”, an online session in collaboration with the Bridges – Ponte Cultural project, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, dedicated to the topic of “Immigration.”

The work Narrative Monitoring: Analysis of Conspiracy Theories on Population Replacement in the Portuguese Web Archive (1996–2021), which placed third in the 2025 Arquivo.pt Award, authored by Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado, Ana Sofia Ribeiro, and Renata Vieira, will be presented.

Arquivo.pt is contributing to this session by presenting a special collection on the topic, collected this month.

Guest speakers: Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado

Held sessions

24/03/2026 – Feminist activism and digital memory: archival practices and fragile data

Guest speakers: Carla Cerqueira, Universidade Lusófona, and Daniel Cardoso, Universidade Lusófona and NOVA-FCSH
Data: 24 de março de 2026, das 15 às 16 horas
Registration required (free). Closed.
Satisfaction Survey – Give us your opinion about the Arquivo.pt sessions (anonymous, 1 minute)

Materials

Summary

The online sessions “Coffee with Arquivo.pt” aim to raise awareness of efforts in Portugal to preserve content published on the Internet and to encourage participation by researchers and the public. The highlight of this session is the project “FEMglocal – Glocal Feminist Movements: Interactions and Contradictions.” A theoretical framework will be presented, followed by a presentation and discussion of the results and activities carried out. For example, identifying websites and other digital channels used by feminist movements has yielded a useful dataset for studying the topic. This raises the question: how can we archive all this fragile digital content circulating on the Internet? As a contribution from Arquivo.pt, we will briefly demonstrate how to collect thousands of pieces of content published on the Web about a specific topic—for example, feminism.

“FEMglocal – Glocal Feminist Movements: Interactions and Contradictions” (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021 / DOI 10.54499/PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021), a project funded by national funds through the FCT — Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. With the participation of DivIntLab (CICANT). With the participation of the DigiPlArt Exploratory Project (2024.13064.PEX), also funded through the FCT.

Learn more about the project: www.femglocal.pt

3/12/2025 – Local elections: how we archive websites and election programmes

Guest speakers: Mário Rui André e Gonçalo Pereira Costa – LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas newspaper
Date: december 3, 2025
Language: Portuguese, translation do English available on Zoom
Registration (free). Closed.

Materials

Summary

Guests Mário Rui André and Gonçalo Pereira Costa, journalists from the newspaper LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas, talked to us about the Portal das Autárquicas da Lisboa Metropolitana (Lisbon Metropolitan Local Elections Portal) they created, which provides information about the candidates and their electoral programmes. Arquivo.pt has collected thousands of electoral pages and websites, more than 3 terabytes of information, and briefly explained the methodology used.

In this session, you will learn

How the local elections in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area went from a journalistic perspective;
What methodology was used to collect electoral content on the Internet;
How to use the web archive to obtain information from the past.

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In-person session dedicated to arquivo.pt closes the “Archives of Knowledge” cycle

December 16, 2025November 7, 2025 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 08:12 pm

On 19 November, the last session of 2025 of the cycle Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory (Arquivos do Saber: Ciência, História e Memória) cycle took place, an initiative of the FCT Science and Technology Archive.

The event took place in the small auditorium of the FCCN premises, FCT’s digital services unit, at Avenida do Brasil, 101, in Lisbon.

More than 30 participants attended, and it was an opportunity for them to learn more about Arquivo.pt.

Event programme

This session openned with speeches by Maria Paula Diogo, member of the Board of Directors of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Paula Meireles, coordinator of the Science and Technology Archive (Arquivo de Ciência e Tecnologia), and João Nuno Ferreira, vice-president of FCT and general coordinator of the digital services unit, FCCN.

The guest speakers are Rúben Almeida, from INESC TEC – FEUP, who will give a presentation entitled Minha Região – O Teu Portal Autárquico, and Joaquim José, from the Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, who will talk about Memor.pt – Explore a Memória Digital Portuguesa, both winners of the Arquivo.pt 2025 Award, 1st and 2nd places, respectively. The session will be moderated by João Gomes, area director of FCCN, FCT’s digital services unit.

19 November programme – ‘Arquivos do Saber’ cycle

The Science and Technology Archive and the dissemination of its collection

The cycle Archives of Knowledge: Science, History and Memory (Arquivos do Saber: Ciência, História e Memória), organised by FCT, has been running since February this year, with the aim of disseminating the documentary collection of its Science and Technology Archive (Arquivo de Ciência e Tecnologia), as well as others relevant to the history and memory of Science and Technology in Portugal. The sessions are short and take place in an informal and sharing environment.

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5ª sessão do ciclo Arquivos do Saber: Ciência, História e Memória, na FCCN

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Photos by Leonor Arrimar, FCT

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MOOC on Arquivo.pt and web archives launched and open to the community

May 21, 2025May 16, 2025 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on May 21st, 2025 at 11:42 am

The online training programme on Arquivo.pt, entitled The Web of the Past: Preservation and Research, has been launched and is open free of charge on the NAU platform to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of web archiving and Arquivo.pt services.

Daniel Gomes, manager of Arquivo.pt, who developed this training programme, announced it, at a first-hand, at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, during the workshop Digital preservation: tools as practices, held on May 7, 2025.

Registration open on the NAU platform for the MOOC web archiving

NAU – Sempre a Aprender is the e-learning platform of the FCCN, Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) digital services unit. The NAU initiative focuses on supporting the publication and dynamisation of content in the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) format in Portuguese.

The aim of this programme is to develop skills in searching the Web’s digital memory, with an emphasis on using Arquivo.pt both in everyday life and in the context of studies and research.

The programme is divided into four courses:

Preservação da web e arquivos (Preserving the web and archives)
Pesquisar e aceder ao passado com o Arquivo.pt (Search and access the past with Arquivo.pt)
Bem publicar para bem preservar (Publish well to preserve well)
Casos de uso do Arquivo.pt (Arquivo.pt use cases)

No special requirements are needed, apart from a computer with Internet access and a browser such as Google, Chrome, Internet Explorer.

Spread the word: arquivo.pt/mooc

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Interview Internet Day, May 17, published on NAU website

Arquivo.pt training with APDSI. Sign up!

April 5, 2025March 13, 2025 by Ricardo Basílio

Ciclo de Webinars do Arquivo.pt com a APSDI

Last updated on April 5th, 2025 at 01:10 pm

APDSI – Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação (Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society) promoted a Cycle of Webinars on Arquivo.pt, held between March 20 and April 1, 2025.

This Webinar Cycle, dedicated to the preservation of cultural memory published on the Web, is a collaboration between APDSI and Arquivo.pt, the FCCN digital services of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Luís Vidigal, Founding Partner of APDSI, Filipa Fixe and João Tavares, Board Members, introduced the theme of each session and the Arquivo.pt team showed how the preservation of web content works, allowing organizations and citizens to access the web of the past.

The four sessions had a total of 121 participants.

Program

Webinar 1 – March 20 – Arquivo.pt: a new tool for researching the past. Daniel Gomes, Head of Arquivo.pt – Vídeo, slides
Webinar 2 – March 25 – To publish well, to preserve well. Pedro Gomes, Arquivo.pt Collections Manager – Vídeo, slides
Webinar 3 – March 27 – Access and automatic processing of information preserved from the Web through APIs. Vasco Rato, Web developer, Vídeo, Slides
Webinar 4 – April 1 – Archiving the Web: do-it-yourself! Ricardo Basílio, Digital Curator – Video, slides

Registration (free but required)

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Arquivo.pt took part in E-Archiving Portugal workshop

March 11, 2025March 3, 2025 by Ricardo Basílio

Professor José Borbinha, eArchiving workshop, 25 February 2025, at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (José Tribolet Room)

Last updated on March 11th, 2025 at 04:22 pm

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 Portugal when he worked at the Biblioteca Nacional in the 90’s.

Professor José Borbinha, better than anyone, knows how to tell in the first person the small, almost epic episodes, the actions of the first ‘heroes’ that led to the creation of a web archive in Portugal. He sees Arquivo.pt as an essential service when it comes to digital preservation and safeguarding organisations’ communication heritage.

The event had a hybrid format with 50 in-person and 270 online participants and was open to all public and private organisations concerned with digital preservation and information management in any type or format. This includes the content of websites and social networks!

The heads of municipalities and local government organisations took part in the event, responding to the call from the Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (DGLAB). This call for people was an opportunity to show how Arquivo.pt can help preserve institutional websites and comply with Portaria n.º 112/2023, de 27 de abril.

eArchiving, a European initiative born in Portugal

The eArchiving Initiative‘s main objective is digital cultural heritage and was created at a meeting of European partners in Lisbon.

‘It was precisely in this room (the José Tribolet room at the Instituto Superior Técnico) that eArchiving began eleven years ago, on 29 May 2014,’ recalled José Borbinha (INESC-ID), host and organiser of the workshop.

The eArchiving initiative is managed on behalf of the European Commission by the E-ARK Consortium, which includes Portuguese partners KEEP Solutions LDA and INESC-ID. The consortium also includes the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, the lead partner, and the DLM Forum MTÜ.

Janet Anderson, manager of eArchiving, showed the progress made in eleven years in the field of digital preservation. The projects funded by the European Union within the consortium have resulted in the development of specifications, software, training and knowledge about digital preservation.

This was followed by a presentation of contributions to digital preservation in Portugal: DGLAB, by Pedro Penteado, Centro Hospitalar São João, by Fernanda Gonçalves, Ministério da Justiça, by Alexandra Lourenço and Cristina Soares, Arquivo.pt, by digital curator Ricardo Basílio.

Finnaly, Miguel Ferreira spoke on behalf of DLM Forum MTÜ , a community in which KEEP Solutions LDA participates by developing software. Taking a more technical approach, he showed how the metadata in the E-Ark packaging specifications is structured to fulfil the requirements of digital preservation.

How to use Arquivo.pt to preserve institutional websites

Digital preservation requires collaboration, both internally and externally between organisations, and this workshop served that purpose: sharing good practices, disseminating tools and services and connecting people.

Arquivo.pt highlighted three services from its catalogue for preserving content published on the web:

High-quality archive of websites (on-demand )
Memorial preserves your old website information before deactivating it
Training on web preservation

Arquivo.pt services can be used, for example, by municipalities to preserve content published on institutional websites.

Arquivo.pt training, such as webinars or face-to-face sessions, are useful for empowering organisations to take care of institutional content, including social media content that requires an alternative strategy.

Arquivo.pt presentation

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Video of all speakers, soon at E-ARK

Arquivo.pt won the Digital Transformation 2024 award

January 6, 2025December 3, 2024 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on January 6th, 2025 at 03:30 pm

Arquivo.pt, the digital service of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)-Unidade FCCN, was one of the winners of the Prémio Transformação Digital da APDSI 2024 (APDSI 2024 Digital Transformation Award).

Arquivo.pt was recognised in the ‘Promoting a more Innovative and Digital Society’ category.

This category highlights the innovative aspect of organisations’ digital transition.

The manager of Arquivo.pt, Daniel Gomes, and the web developer in charge of Arquivo.pt’s collections, Pedro Gomes, were present at the ceremony, which took place in Oeiras on 3 December 2024.

Arquivo.pt’s application for the Award (in Portuguese)

Arquivo.pt, a service for digital transformation

Daniel Gomes explains how a web preservation service contributes to a more sustainable information society, in a video prepared for the awards ceremony.

Digital Transformation Award 2024 APDSI

The Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação (APDSI) (Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society) promotes the use of technology in favour of citizens, their inclusion and participation in the development of society.

The Digital Transformation Award (4th edition in 2024) aims to ‘recognise and disseminate best practices in the adoption and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT), with a view to a more digital society sustained by public and private institutions that are more efficient and closer to the citizen’ (APDSI website).

The 2024 edition of this award received 33 nominations in 3 categories: