The speaker for this session was the winner of the Arquivo.pt 2020 Award, Miguel Ramalho, who presented his work. “Desarquivo” is a web aplication that searches for entities on Arquivo.pt and return a graph.
As in 2017, 2018 e 2019, we invited everyone to get to know Arquivo.pt, and to use it in research and in the preservation of memory.
World Digital Preservation Day is promoted by the Digital Preservation Coalitium (UK) and an occasion for initiatives around the world, shared on social networks with the WDPD2020 hashtag.
The winner of the 10,000 euros prize was the work “ Desarquivo ” developed by Miguel Ramalho.
“Desarquivo” is a website that enables searching for named entities (e.g. people, organizations and places) and identify relationships among them, based on news published in online newspapers along time.
The search results are presented in the form of a graph or network of relationships that enables a journalist, researcher or any common citizen to dynamically explore the relationships among historical information preserved from the Web by Arquivo.pt.
For example, a user can explore ideological proximity among political parties along time.
The 2nd prize in the amount of 3,000 euros was awarded to the work “ Extension Arquivo.pt ”, a browser extension developed by Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva.
This extension enables users to perform advanced searches on Arquivo.pt directly from the browser , without having to leave the page they are currently viewing.
The “Arquivo.pt Extension” is available for download in the Chrome Web Store.
The 3rd place winner received a prize of 2,000 euros and was awarded to the work “Arquivo Económico .pt” by Nuno Bragança.
The “Arquivo Económico .pt” organizes and presents information preserved by Arquivo.pt about the prices of products since the time of the Portuguese coin escudo.
As a result, we have a website that enables searching the price of consumer goods by different categories, such as supermarket, transportation or others, on given dates.
For example, users can easily know how much a trip from Lisbon-Porto or a cell phone call costed in 1999.
Jornal Público, official partner of the 3rd edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize, awarded its Honorable Mention to the work “Jornal do Passado”, developed by Bruno Galhardo.
“Jornal do Passado” is a game for all ages, developed for Android, in which the users test their knowledge about news or events by guessing the date in which they occurred.
As a result, we have an app that enables searching the historical information preserved by Arquivo.pt in a pedagogical and fun way.
This external service is useful for research use cases, in areas such as Web design, Art, Communication or History,where it is necessary to access the original visual aspect of a page from the past in the most reliable way possible.
Web page of the European Map of WWW/NIR sites in 1996 using the Oldweb.Today service
You may have to wait a while for your request to be processed but it is always faster than having to install a browser from the past on your computer.
Export search results to spreadsheet format
This new function enables users to save their search results for further treatment and analysis. This is specially useful to perform thorough research about a given topic.
After a search, in the Options, just choose one of the available formats to export the obtained results: XLSX, CSV or TXT.
Exported results into an Excel sheet of a search for the word “universidade”, university, limited to 10 items
Arquivo.pt launched a new version of its service on April 15, 2020 named WebApp.
The purpose of this version was to standardize the user experience between different devices and reduce maintenance costs by removing components with redundant functions.
Its main novelty is the combination of the desktop and mobile interfaces in a single user interface.
The old desktop version has been disabled and the mobile version has evolved to work on various types of devices and screen sizes.
The exhibition of Arquivo.pt is being displayed at the library of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) until April 30.
Eight posters with old web pages invite students, researchers and professors to use Arquivo.pt in their work and apply to the Arquivo.pt 2020 Award. There will be training at FCUL on March 12, 4h30 to 18h00 p.m., room 1.3.15.
This exhibition has been going through several Higher Education institutions, but in the case of FCUL it is a return to its origins.
Between 2002 and 2006, as part of a new project (TOMBA, referring to the national archive, Torre do Tombo), a prototype was developed for a national web archive. The researcher group was awarded as the best article by the network DELOS – Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.
Arquivo.pt was officially launched at the FCCN in November 2007, aimed to collecting and preserving Portuguese Web content and using specific technologies, similar to those of the Internet Archive.
Three researchers from FCUL were part of the core team. They have developed the Arquivo.pt service in the early years. In 2010, they presented a prototype of a search service, a Google for the past, innovative in the context of web archiving.
Currently, Arquivo.pt also has an image search and an API (Advanced Programming Interface). It maintains the perspective, followed by the first project at FCUL, which is based of creating useful services for the community.
Arquivo.pt Memorial is the most recent service, created for institutions that wants to keep old sites accessible, even after disconnecting them from their servers. As an example of this, you can visit the Minema project (finished years ago), and see how this service works.
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
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.
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.
Jornadas de Computação Científica is an annual event on scientific computing. In 2019 it will be take place between the 6 and 8 of May, at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada.
The event is aimed at teachers, students, researchers and service providers in Higher Education institutions.
Sessions Arquivo.pt on May 6 from 14h30 to 18h00
14h30 – The Memory of the Web: a forgotten heritage?, Daniel Gomes 15h15 – Preservation of institutional Web sites, Ricardo Basílio
16h00 – Coffee break
16h30 – Recommendations for publishing information on the Web, Daniel Bicho 17h15 – Automatic access to Arquivo.pt (APIs), Fernando Melo 17h45 – A few words from our sponsor Huawei, Henrique Oliveira
The event also includes an Azorean dinner on May 7.
Some of the pages archived by Arquivo.pt have taken to the streets this January. During the month of January, six iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history will be displayed in the lobby windows of the Secretaria-Geral da Educação e Ciência, at Avenida 5 de outubro, 107, in Lisbon.
The exhibition is open to the public all day long until the 31st January and shows examples of pages which, nowadays, can only be visited through Arquivo.pt, 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.
This exhibition is itinerant, so if you are interested in bringing it to your city or institution, please contact Arquivo.pt.
