Arquivo.pt Award 2018 was announced

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:20 pm

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 nature of Arquivo.pt for the proposed work and the impact of the work in the society or community for which it is intended.

Who can apply?

The award is primarily targeted at members of the national academic and scientific community.

Prize values

  • First place: € 10 000
  • Second place: € 3 000
  • Third place: € 2 000

Application deadline

  • 4th May 2018

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How to apply?

The applicants will have to present their work through a text and a short video (in Portuguese). The detailed Regulation is in preparation.

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Scientific study presents a search log analysis of a search engine

Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:00 pm

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, Portugal.

Trends in the evolution of the Web: we have published a video about our study

Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:21 pm

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 data

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