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Arquivo.pt

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Arquivo.pt, formerly known as the Portuguese web-archive, is a Web archive of content dating back to 1996.[1] Its mission is to periodically archive content of national interest available on the web, storing and preserving information of historical interest for the future. It is a service of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) that was initially founded at the Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional by Daniel Coelho Gomes.

As well as helping to preserve scientific and historical knowledge, the Web archive also allows ordinary citizens to keep their memories as individuals.[2][3]

Arquivo.pt aims to archive and preserve web content relevant to the Portuguese community.[4]

Arquivo.pt provides a free preservation service for Portuguese web authors, and a research resource that has been used by researchers, for example, to automatically measure the accessibility of the Portuguese web for people with disabilities.[5]

Arquivo.pt also allows any Internet user to suggest archiving a site using a special form on its website.[6]

In 2017, Arquivo.pt celebrated 10 years since the project start.[7] During this year, Arquivo.pt received 100,000 users with a growing trend as the service is disseminated (90% are new users and 53% are originated outside of Portugal).

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At the end of March 2021, it implemented a search engine for images from the web from 1996 to the present, called Dionisius, which contains more than a billion images from the web's past.[8][9]

Public merit

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  • Arquivo.pt's catalogue of digital preservation tools is a finalist for The National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy (Digital Preservation Coalition Awards 2024).[10]
  • Arquivo.pt in the top 3 government digital services in Portugal, 2023.[11]
  • Best Digital Service 2022 for Arquivo.pt.[12]
  • Arquivo.pt enters the honour roll for security in Portugal according to the Portuguese Observatory of Internet Technologies, 2022.[13]
  • Best paper award for Arquivo and measurement of the Portuguese web at Ibero-American IADIS WWW/Internet 2008.[14]

References

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  1. ^ Gomes, Daniel (2022-11-14). "Web archives as research infrastructure for digital societies: the case study of Arquivo.pt". Archeion. 123: 46–85. doi:10.4467/26581264arc.22.012.16665. ISSN 2658-1264.
  2. ^ Teszelszky, Kees (November 2021). "Introduction: digital humanities and the use of web archives". International Journal of Digital Humanities. 2 (1–3): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s42803-021-00040-5. ISSN 2524-7832.
  3. ^ Gomes, Daniel; Costa, Miguel (April 2014). "The Importance of Web Archives for Humanities". International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 8 (1): 106–123. doi:10.3366/ijhac.2014.0122. ISSN 1753-8548.
  4. ^ Gomes, Daniel (2022-11-14). "Web archives as research infrastructure for digital societies: the case study of Arquivo.pt". Archeion. 123: 46–85. doi:10.4467/26581264ARC.22.012.16665.
  5. ^ Lopes, Rui; Gomes, Daniel; Carriço, Luís (2010-04-26). "Web not for all: A large scale study of web accessibility". Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A). ACM. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1145/1805986.1806001. ISBN 978-1-4503-0045-2.
  6. ^ "Suggest websites to be preserved".
  7. ^ Gomes, Daniel; Nogueira, André; Miranda, João; Costa, Miguel (September 2009). "Introducing the Portuguese web archive initiative". 8th International Web Archiving Workshop.
  8. ^ SAPO. "Arquivo.pt tem mais de mil milhões de imagens históricas da internet pesquisáveis online". SAPO Tek (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  9. ^ Mourão, André; Gomes, Daniel (2023-10-09). "Searching images in a web archive". 2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). IEEE. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1109/DSAA60987.2023.10302607. ISBN 979-8-3503-4503-2. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  10. ^ "The National Archives (UK). The National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy". Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  11. ^ Fevereiro, Sara. "Quem são os líderes da transformação digital do país?". Expresso. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Os Melhores & As Maiores do Portugal Tecnológico 2022: conheça os vencedores". November 30, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
  13. ^ "ISOC Portugal lança o Observatório da Internet portuguesa". Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  14. ^ Gomes, Daniel; Miranda, João (December 2008). "Arquivo e Medição da Web Portuguesa". Ibero-Americana IADIS WWW/Internet 2008.
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