Local elections ("autárquicas") were held in Portugal on 12 October 2025, and Arquivo.pt compiled a special collection of electoral content published on the web, resulting in 3.5 terabytes of information for research and academic work. 440 search terms were used to obtain 43,000 page addresses, along with the websites of parishes, municipalities, and political parties. […]
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 […]
Share this page: arquivo.pt/onlinecafe Welcome to the third season of the Online Cafe with Arquivo.pt Talk directly to the Arquivo.pt team and get answers to all your questions! The Arquivo.pt launched a new cycle of team chats with you through online sessions. Brief introductory presentations will be given, leaving time to ask all your questions […]
The information collected from the Web during 2019 is now avaliable in Arquivo.pt (in respect to the embargo period of 1 year). Printed screen from www.politico.eu preserved by Arquivo.pt, collected in June 18, 2019. Article about the Notre Dame fire in Paris, "Notre Dame fire 'fully extinguished’ as fundraising starts". Remember and research historical events […]
Form to suggest a web page, a web site or other web content Arquivo.pt invites all citizens to suggest web pages related to the 2021 Presidential Elections to be preserved for the future. The Presidential Elections will take place in Portugal on January 24, 2021. Your suggestions are important so that Arquivo.pt can keep a […]
Preserving scientific project websites is important The contents of the websites tend to disappear when the scientific projects are finished. The preservation of scientific project websites is important because: documents the development of projects; ensures access to unique technical and scientific content that researchers have posted on the project websites (eg presentations, photographs, data sets); […]
Print from an archived page on Arquivo.pt: https://www.european-elections.eu The special collection of web pages about the 2019 European Elections is available for search at Arquivo.pt. To compile this collection, pages written in 24 European languages were identified through automatic searches on the Bing search engine and suggestions from 17 European countries. We emphasize the collaboration […]
Arquivo.pt performed 2 web crawls of information related with the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017. We appealed the community to contribute with suggestions of relevant Web pages so that we could preserve them. The 2 crawls occurred during and after the campaign period, using the list of 410 Web pages suggested by the community and […]
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 […]