6th edition of the Arquivo.pt Award

The Arquivo.pt Award has opened applications for its 6th edition, and entries can be submitted until May 4, challenging all interested parties to develop a project based on historical information preserved on the web. The prizes, to be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, will be €10,000, €3,000, and €2,000, respectively.

In addition to the three places on the podium, two honorable mentions will also be awarded, one by the Público newspaper, which was one of the first newspapers to be on the internet, and the other by the Aveiro Media Competence Center (AMCC).

Projects can be developed in groups or individually on topics from any field, such as education, history, sociology, communication, health, and information technology, among others, provided that Arquivo.pt was the main source of information for the project. Innovative works must be submitted, consisting of practical applications or studies based on information accessible on Arquivo.pt and demonstrating the usefulness of this public service and the importance of preserving information published on the web.

Every day, millions of web pages are published. However, after a short time, the vast majority of this information is no longer available and is irretrievably lost. Arquivo.pt bucks this trend. It is an infrastructure managed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that allows users to search and access web pages archived since 1996. The main objective is to preserve information published on the web for memory, study, and research purposes.

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