Arquivo.pt Award 2021 chooses its winners
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The big winners of the 2021 edition of the Arquivo.pt Prize - the award that honors innovative work based on the information accessible through this FCCN Unit service and which has preserved millions of pages collected from the web since 1996 - are now known.
In its 4th edition, which had the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic, 26 applications were received and the objective of demonstrating the usefulness of Arquivo.pt was maintained, as well as reinforcing the importance of preserving information published on the web as a source of research and knowledge.
The big winner of the 2021 edition was the "Major Minors" project, by Paulo Martins and Leandro Costa, which secured a prize of €10,000. The platform, created by these researchers from the University of Minho, aims to map the representation of minority groups in the Portuguese media landscape. To this end, "Major Minors" consists of an ontological database that aggregates press clippings with reference to social minorities.
The "Politiques" tool, created by David Batista, was awarded the second prize of €3,000. The work consists of a platform that allows you to search for relationships of support or opposition between personalities and political parties. These links are established by analyzing news headlines preserved on Arquivo.pt. According to the author, the database includes around 1,400 Portuguese personalities affiliated to political parties and holding public office in Portugal, among others.
The third prize was awarded to the work "Front pages of Portuguese online newspapers", by designer Susana Parreira, who receives a prize of €2,000. As the name suggests, the project consists of a platform that carries out an interactive analysis of the graphic design of the front pages of Portuguese online newspapers over time. The work also received an honorable mention from the media partner - the newspaper Público. According to the author, the tool could be applied in research or in the classroom.
The Call projects were evaluated by an independent jury, made up of Alfredo Ramalho, Director of the João Paulo II University Library at the Portuguese Catholic University; Celso Martinho, Director of Engineering, Miguel Avillez, Assistant Professor with Aggregation in the Mathematics Department at the University of Évora; Maria Beatriz Marques, Professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Letters in the area of Documentary Sciences; and Teresa Firmino, editor of the Science section of the Público newspaper. The awards will be officially presented at the Science 2021 Meeting, which takes place from June 28 to 30.
Annexes:
Candidacy videos
- Major Minors project
- Politiquices project
- Front pages of Portuguese online newspapers project
- Video summary of the winners of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2021