Arquivo.pt celebrated World Digital Preservation Day with an online Café com o Arquivo.pt session on 5 November 2026, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Lisbon time), via Zoom. The event had more than 50 participants.
This year's international theme, set by the Digital Preservation Coalition, was "Save our Stories (SOS): Our digital heritage in danger". The three talks offered different perspectives on how to preserve the stories that today exist only in digital form.
Arquivo.pt has joined World Digital Preservation Day every year since the first edition in 2017, thereby fulfilling an aspect of its mission: the promotion of best practices for digital preservation, specifically regarding content published on the Internet.
The session was held in Portuguese.
Materials
- Session video on YouTube
- Slides of "Clique aqui para perder" (Click here to lose), Ingra Barreto (PDF)
- Slides of "Development of a Digital Preservation Plan for the FCT", Paula Meireles (PDF)
- Slides of "News from Arquivo.pt", Ivo Branco (PDF)
- Extra slides - the first website ever
Programme
3:05 p.m. – "Clique aqui para perder" (Click here to lose) - Ingra Barreto, 1st place winner of the Arquivo.pt Award 2026
The winning work, Clique Aqui para Perder (Click Here to Lose), collects real cases of frauds, schemes and scams that spread across the Portuguese Internet between 2000 and 2012, recovered from pages preserved by Arquivo.pt. The talk presented stories of uses (and abuses) of the Internet and the project's educational approach.
3:25 p.m. – Development of a Digital Preservation Plan for the FCT - Paula Meireles, coordinator of Archives, Information and Documentation at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
A case study: how to build a digital preservation plan for a science and technology institution, using the FCT itself as the example.
3:45 p.m. – News from Arquivo.pt - Ivo Branco, Arquivo.pt Manager
The latest news about the service, including the new text search, which finds twice as many preserved pages.