Arquivo.pt Awards 2021 has chosen the winners

The big winners of the 2021 edition of the Arquivo.pt Award are now known – the award that distinguishes innovative works that are based on information accessible through this service from the FCCN Unit and that preserves millions of pages collected from the web since 1996.

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 project “Major Minors”, by Paulo Martins and Leandro Costa, guaranteeing a prize worth R$10 thousand. The platform, created by these researchers from the University of Minho, aims to map the representation of minority groups in the Portuguese media scene. 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, worth R$3,000. The work consists of a platform that allows research into relationships of support or opposition between personalities and political parties. These connections are established through the analysis of news headlines preserved on Arquivo.pt. According to the author, the database includes around 1,400 Portuguese personalities affiliated with political parties and holding public office in Portugal, among others.

The third prize was given to the work “Front pages of Portuguese online newspapers”, by designer Susana Parreira, who thus received a prize of €2,000. As the name suggests, the project consists of a platform that performs 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 its media partner, the Público newspaper. According to the author, the tool can be applied in research or in a classroom context.

The projects to Call were evaluated by an independent jury, composed of Alfredo Ramalho, Director of the João Paulo II University Library of the Catholic University of Portugal; Celso Martinho, Director of Engineering, Miguel Avillez, Assistant Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora; Maria Beatriz Marques, Professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Literature 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 Ciência 2021 Meeting , which takes place from June 28 to 30.

Attachments:

Application videos

– Major Minors project
– Politiquices project
– project Front pages of Portuguese online newspapers

– Video summary of the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2021

– Arquivo.pt Awards Page