FCT launches the 2nd edition of the Arquivo.pt Award in 2019

In 2019, FCT will launch the second edition of the Arquivo.pt Award. This Call encourage and recognize research and the discovery of useful applications of the Portuguese web archive for society. Applications will be open from January 2019.

This edition will continue to reward original and innovative works that demonstrate the usefulness of the Arquivo.pt service and the importance of preserving and using information published on the web. The works must have Arquivo.pt as their main source of information and be practical applications or complete research studies based on information preserved from the web by Arquivo.pt.

Millions of web pages are published every day. 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 a research infrastructure managed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that allows users to search and access web pages archived since 1996. Its main objective is to preserve information published on the web for the purposes of memory, study, and research.

More information about the Call available athttp://arquivo.pt/premios.