By: Marie Haškovcová and Luboš Svoboda, Webarchiv, National Library of the Czech Republic, May 13th to 17th, 2024. A visit within the EU Erasmus+ programme Thanks to the EU Erasmus+ programme, focused on adult education - staff mobility, we were able to spend a week job shadowing at the Portuguese web archive Arquivo.pt and compare […]
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" […]
Geocities.com was the first major "social network" which enabled anyone to create their website and publish information on the Web. It was created in 1994, acquired by Yahoo in 1999 and shut down in 2009. Initiatives have been emerging to preserve the content of Geocities, such as the Archive Team project which gathered 641 GB […]
RESAW@Porto2018 workshop An introduction to web archives for Humanities and Social Science research. 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 […]