On June 16, 2026, the Arquivo.pt team welcomed Makiba Foster, leader of the Archiving the Black Web initiative. The purpose of the exchange was to share knowledge and best practices on how to involve local communities in the preservation of content considered important. Here, we share some ideas and links that came out of this […]
The Arquivo.pt team attended the Web Archiving Conference (WAC) and the IIPC General Assembley in Brussels from April 20 to 23, 2026. The Web Archiving Conference is the largest event dedicated to Internet preservation. It brings together initiatives from around the world, such as the Internet Archive, national libraries, and research centers that develop methodologies […]
Four members of the Arquivo.pt team were in Oslo, Norway, to take part in the General Assembly of the International Internet Preservation Consortium and the Web Archiving Conference, from 8 to 15 April 2025. The National Library of Norway was the host institution for this international event. The Norwegian Web Archive is part of the […]
The month of September marks the beginning of a year's work and also the end of many websites that are hopelessly lost. Remodelled or shut down without making a good copy of their content, this is how historic websites are lost unnecessarily. There are tools that allow websites to be saved immediately by the organisations […]
IPL - Politécnico de Lisboa, through its Distance Learning Group (EaD@IPL), organised a series of webinars for its community dedicated to Arquivo.pt and the preservation of content published on the Internet. This initiative was attended by IPL - Politécnico de Lisboa lecturers and researchers, as well as people linked to the institution's communications department. The […]
The collection of 1 PetaByte of content predominantly in Portuguese, accessible to both researchers and ordinary citizens, is a milestone that deserves to be celebrated, in the month of its 16th anniversary. At Arquivo.pt you can search for information published on the Web in the past, such as: The first European page News from The […]
The Instituto de Gestão Financeira e Equipamentos da Justiça (IGFEJ) and Secretaria Geral do Ministério da Justiça (SGMJ), in collaboration with BAD, organized the event "Digital Preservation in Justice" to mark World Digital Preservation Day on November 2, 2023. The event, which took place in the auditorium of the Polícia Judiciária in Lisbon, was attended […]
Meeting the Web Archive Community The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a consortium that brings together Web preservation initiatives from around the world, held its General Assembly with its members on May 10, 2023. On the following days, May 11 and 12, the IIPC Web Archiving Conference (IIPC WAC) was held, an initiative open to […]
MUVITUR - Virtual Museum of Turism is a portal that aggregates digital content about Tourism in Portugal. The platform is maintained by the Celestino Domingues Library of The Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies (ESHTE) and has the participation of institutions from various areas of heritage that are content providers. Among the digitized […]
Afghanistan Ministry of Economy website with Karima Faryabi (recorded August 17, 2021) On August 15, 2021 the presidential palace in Kabul was taken over by the Taliban, consummating the fall of the regime that had been in place for 20 years, following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The community of Web archivists, through […]