6th edition of the Arquivo.pt Award

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

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

Projects can be developed in groups or individually around topics in any area, such as education, history, sociology, communication, health and IT, among others, as long as Arquivo.pt was the main source of information for the project. Innovative work should be submitted, consisting of practical applications or studies, based on the information accessible on Arquivo.pt and demonstrating the usefulness of this public service and the importance of preserving the information published on the web.

Millions of pages are published on the web every day. However, after a short time, the vast majority of this information is no longer available and is irretrievably lost. Arquivo.pt goes against this trend. It is an infrastructure managed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that allows you 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.

More information about the Call at Arquivo.pt