Colectiva de Artistas. 2008.04.19 a 2008.06.07. Galeria Quadrado Azul. Porto. Composition from a Webpage preserved on Arquivo.pt: www.quadradoazul.pt, 22nd October 2008.
On April 29, May 27 and July 1, from 3 to 4:30 pm, webinars geared to the community of artists, curators, gallerists and event producers will be held, open also to anyone interested in learning more about preserving art websites.
Throughout the sessions, participants will learn in detail about the functionalities of Arquivo.pt in order to take advantage of this public Web preservation service. They will have technical information, in the form of recommendations and best practices, to create preservable websites. Finally, they will learn how to use available tools to save their websites in a standardized format so that their contents are not lost.
This cycle of Webinars is an initiative of the “Forever” Project, a collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library and Arquivo.pt under the ROSSIO infrastructure.
At the end of 2020, we recommend some texts that put the future in perspective.
We highlight the theme of preserving online content presented in the ebook “Tendências 2021” (Trends 2021). The contribution of Daniel Gomes, the Arquivo.pt manager, was entitled “Arquivos online ou do online?” (Online archives or archives of the online?).
I was invited to write about the challenges and threats to online archives. The first question that came to me was what is meant by an “online archive”?
My concern lies in the “archives of the online” because there is not even an established awareness about their need, whether at an academic, governmental or individual level.
It is technologically impossible to preserve all information available online. But it is absurd not to be aware that we have to preserve some of the information online for short, medium and long term access.
Welcome to the second season of the Online Cafe with Arquivo.pt
Talk directly to the Arquivo.pt team and get answers to all your questions! The Arquivo.pt launched a new cycle of team chats with you through online sessions. Brief introductory presentations will be given, leaving time to ask all your questions about how to get more out of Arquivo.pt or how to apply to the Arquivo.pt Awards.
Sessions held
21st session – Bilions of images to search on Arquivo.pt – all about the Arquivo.pt API
In March 2021 Arquivo.pt launched a new version with 1800 million images available. The search for images in web archives at this scale is unique in the world and innovative. The process used for indexing was explained in detail, in this session, as well as the best way to take advantage of these resources using the API to create new works based on images.
André Mourão, Ph.D. in Computer Science, is working on the indexing of the information, specially images from the Internet of the past to the present at Arquivo.pt (Portuguese Web Archive). He is a researcher working on ways to search and interpret multimedia data (e.g., images, text, video) effectively at large scales. He is also the co-creator of Revisionista.PT, uncovering post-publication edits in Portuguese news articles (with Flávio Martins) and an Associated Member at NOVA LINCS research center.
20th session – March 26 – The Online Centenary of the Great War
Daniela Major, invited speaker of the 20th Café with Arquivo.pt, presented a use case about historical research and old websites. The commemoration of the Centenary of the 1st World War generated several strategies for international cooperation in the 21st century and such diversity is present in the information published on commemorative websites. In this session, Daniela Major will show how she used Web archives to start a study in the context of Contemporary History, as well as the methodological implications in her work.
Daniela Major is a PhD student in Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In 2019, within the scope of the ROSSIO Infrastructure, he started at Arquivo.pt a study on the celebrations of World War I based on the preserved contents of the Web. Currently, his PhD focuses on the media impact of the idea of Europe over the past few years. 15 years, in an effort to combine intellectual history with digital humanities.
This event, Cafe with Arquivo.pt, toke place for the first time 1 year ago, on the 27th march 2020. Cheers!
Special Session – March 2 – Arquivo.pt Award story and questions
Resume: The Arquivo.pt Award was created in 2018 in order to promote the use of Arquivo.pt for innotive works. How many candidates had applied since till now? What areas did the work focus on? What is the balance between Studies and Applications? Who were the winners and what were their main contributions? These and other questions were the guidelines for this session dedicated Award 2021.
This session was presented by Daniel Gomes and the Arquivo.pt team
This session was dedicated to the websites of Portuguese newspapers. Diogo Silva da Cunha talked about his first contact with Arquivo.pt and his approach, concretized in an “research route” as a way of delimiting the scope of his analysis. He also presented the results of his research about Correio da Manhã, Diário de Notícias, Expresso and Público newspapers.
Diogo Silva da Cunha is PhD student at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, collaborator at the Center for Philosophy of Sciences at the same university. He recently published a study on the preservation of newspapers’ web pages in the book “O choque tecno-liberal, os media e o jornalismo: estudos críticos sobre a realidade Portuguesa”. In 2017, he participated in the Digital Humanities project Investiga XXI at Arquivo.pt.
17th session – january 15 – How to do an exhibition of old web pages without being an IT expert (tutorial)
This session present by Ricardo Basílio, the Arquivo.pt digital curator, is focused in practical aspects, when preparing an exhibition of old pages. As example: the use of long links, tipical of web archives, graphic aspects to be taken into account and navigation routes between webpages. The WordPress.com is used as platform to show how easy is build a web exhibition. The core aspects of dissimination content from Web archives have application in other platforms.
16th session – december 11 – Arquivo Económico .pt
Arquivo Económico .PT, authored by Nuno Bragança, 3rd place in Arquivo.pt Awards 2020, is a WebApp that allows discovering prices on web pages along time, over a set products in frequent use and compare them with current prices. Data are obtainned automatically from Arquivo.pt, processed and presented in an intuitive way for the common user.The possibility of comparing the present with the past based on information from the archived web shows how it can be useful not only to satisfy curiosity but also to support studies in many areas.
In this session we met the winners of 2nd place the Arquivo.pt Awards 2020. Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva talked about the their work “Arquivo.pt Extension” wich is a browser extension that allows users to search on Arquivo.pt. They showed through practical examples how the extension save time and helps the acess to the Arquivo.pt.
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.
Exposições Arquivo.pt
Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém
Biblioteca do ISCTE, Lisboa
B-Lounge, Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho / B-Lounge Universidade do Minho Library
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Biblioteca da Reitoria da Universidade do Algarve
Biblioteca da Reitoria da Universidade do Algarve
Biblioteca da Reitoria da Universidade do Algarve
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
