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Submissions for Arquivo.pt Award 2019 are officially open! The deadline is May 3, at 1 pm (Lisbon time).
The three best works will receive a total of 15 000 euros.
Individual or group works on any subject are accepted. The only requirement is that they use Arquivo.pt as their main source of information.
Here’s how to apply: arquivo.pt/award2019
Good luck!
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With the theme “ “Os Oceanos, Um Património para o Futuro” (“Oceans, a Heritage for the Future“), EXPO’98 took place in Lisbon, 1998.
Considered a turning point for Lisbon and Portugal, from May 2 to September 30, 1998, the event attracted around 11 million visitors. EXPO’98 also had as its purpose to highlight the 500 years of the Portuguese Discoveries.
The importance of EXPO’98 did not stop there:
However, as in the digital world, much of the information disappears after a short time, only with Arquivo.pt you can even browse EXPO’98 page, serving as a historical and research base about the event.
A moment that Arquivo.pt keeps for the memory of those days not be lost and for future research about their impact on the lives of all Portuguese.
Travel through EXPO’98 with Arquivo.pt!
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Arquivo.pt will distinguish again in 2019, works that make use of web information from the past in a useful and innovative way.
There will be 15 000 € in prizes:
Proposals can be presented by individuals or groups. The winners will be those that best promote the usage of preserved web information and the services provided by Arquivo.pt.
The contest will follow the same format as in the previous edition and will be open to everyone regardless of their area of study or activity.
The definite rules and application dates will be announced shortly. Applications will be open in early 2019.
The first edition, in 2018, awarded 3 proposals. The 1st prize went to the team led by Ricardo Campos, INESC TEC researcher and professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) with the project Conta-me Histórias, a platform which automatically generates temporal narratives from online news about topics submitted by its users.
For Ricardo Campos the award was:
“An important boost for the project, and thanks to this award, other research works or even commercial applications may be come up.”
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Arquivo.pt 2018 Award was presented to the winners by the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation , Carlos Moedas,on July 3 at Ciência 2018 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia at the Lisbon Congress Centre.
27 applications were received.
“Conta-me Histórias” won first prize and 10 000 euros. This is a team effort from Ricardo Campos, Arian Pasquali, Vítor Mangaravite, Alípio Jorge and Adam Jatowt.
Conta-me Histórias is an online service that provides a temporal narrative about any subject using 24 electronic news platforms.
The second prize of 3 000 euros was given to “Framing the concept of “homosexuality” in 20 years of publication of the Expresso newspaper” from João Teixeira Duarte and Zélia Teixeira.
This study intends to facilitate a reflection about homosexuality portrait in a Portuguese newspaper over 20 years.
The third prize of 2 000 euros was given to “Arquivo de Opinião” from Miguel Won.
Arquivo de Opinião is a web application which offers the user a digital repository of opinion articles published between 2008 and 2016, in the most prominent Portuguese media outlets.
Arquivo.pt Award intends to highlight every year, innovative and original projects showing Arquivo.pt utility as a research data infrastructure.
This one-day workshop will be held as part of TPDL 2018 on 13 September 2018, Porto, Portugal.
RESAW is a network of researchers and web archivists that promotes the development of Research infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web Material.
The organizing committee is composed by Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of London) and Daniel Gomes (Arquivo.pt).
We are seeking proposals from potential contributors to the workshop in two main areas:
To apply, just submit a 300-500 word abstract via our online form. Final presentations should be around 30 minutes in length.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2018, 17.00 (GMT+1).
All details at: http://arquivo.pt/resawPorto2018
Please disseminate among potentially interested authors and attendees.
Thanks!
Jane Winters & Daniel Gomes
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Applications for the Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018 are open until May 4.
The 1st prize is 10 000 EURO, individual or group applications can be submitted about any theme. The only requirement is to use Arquivo.pt as the main source of information.
To apply, you will need to submit a text and a short video describing the work done. The use of the Portuguese language is mandatory.
Know more at:
http://arquivo.pt/prizes
Spread the word about it among potential candidates!