Archive.co.uk: New ways to travel to the past

On November 8th, Arquivo.pt celebrates its 10th anniversary with the initiative "Arquivo.pt: New ways to travel to the past". The event marks the work done by this archive in the area of Web information preservation, which in the future will allow society to understand what the past was like in this increasingly digital and multimedia age.

The event's program includes sessions where it will be possible to explore the trajectory of the service and learn about the various experiences that these ten years have brought to the preservation work of the Portuguese digital heritage. Speakers include José Pacheco Pereira, historian, and Lulien Masanès, of the Internet Memory Foundation. Several workshops will also take place and the launch of the Arquivo.pt 2018 award will also be announced.

Arquivo.pt consists of an infrastructure that allows searching and accessing web pages archived since 1996. It currently has over 52 million files related to Research & Development (R&D) projects, in addition to websites from the most diverse areas. The main focus is the preservation of all information published on the internet for scientific and academic purposes. For this purpose, a feature was developed to automatically identify addresses related to R&D projects, which ensures that their content is preserved in a systematic way. The platform also has a field for collecting contributions from researchers, who can suggest the addresses of their sites to be preserved on the platform (see: http://arquivo.pt/sugerir).

More information and registration here