Last updated on December 4th, 2025 at 01:15 pm
“Café with Arquivo.pt” consists of short online sessions so that anyone can attend during working hours. Its aim is to raise awareness of Arquivo.pt and gather contributions from the community on topics related to web preservation.
In December 2025, a new series was launched dedicated to the thematic collections that Arquivo.pt publishes in the form of data sets on the Dados.Gov open data platform.
For example, websites related to theatre, music, schools, parishes, elections and other topics are preserved in Arquivo.pt. In the thematic sessions of Café com o Arquivo.pt, we will highlight sets of websites whose history can be found in the web archive.
Each session is dedicated to a specific topic and features a guest speaker who talks about their institution or project and comments on the topic of the day.
Thematic collections series
1st session – Local elections: how we archive websites and election programmes
- Guest speakers: Mário Rui André e Gonçalo Pereira Costa – LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas newspaper
- Date: december 3, 2025
- Language: Portuguese, translation do English available on Zoom
- Registration (free)
Materials
- Video of the session
- Presentation – LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas by Mário Rui André e Gonçalo Pereira Costa
- Presentation – Arquivo.pt by Ricardo Basílio, Web curator
- Portal Autárquicas da Lisboa Metropolitana (LPP/ Lisboa Para Pessoas)
- Dataset (Arquivo.pt)
Summary
Guests Mário Rui André and Gonçalo Pereira Costa, journalists from the newspaper LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas, talked to us about the Portal das Autárquicas da Lisboa Metropolitana (Lisbon Metropolitan Local Elections Portal) they created, which provides information about the candidates and their electoral programmes. Arquivo.pt has collected thousands of electoral pages and websites, more than 3 terabytes of information, and briefly explained the methodology used.
In this session, you will learn
- How the local elections in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area went from a journalistic perspective;
- What methodology was used to collect electoral content on the Internet;
- How to use the web archive to obtain information from the past.