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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the Arquivo.pt Event, the release of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2018 was announced. The purpose of the first edition of this Prize is to foster innovative research or application of resources preserved from the Web, through the research and access services publicly made available by Arquivo.pt. The applications must clearly demonstrate the usefulness and unique […]
This research presents a characterization of the information-seeking behaviour of the users of a Portuguese web search engine, based on the analysis of its logs. The paper A Search Log Analysis of a Portuguese Web Search Engine, by Miguel Costa and Mário J. Silva, was presented at INForum 2010 - Simpósio de Informática, in Braga, […]
Numbers from July 2011 about volume of archived data. We reached 1 200 million contents archived since 1996, 79% of them are indexed We save 62% of disk space by using DeDuplicator on our daily crawls We estimated to have disk space until 2017 to archive data and memory until 2014 to make it searchable
Talk about the evolution of Web characteristics, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive. The presentation focuses on the following points: The Web Web Archiving and crawlers Web characteristics and its evolution within 5 years The importance of the study on Web trends in the design of tools that process its […]