Arquivo.pt Award 2021 announces winners
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The winners of the 2021 Arquivo.pt Award have been announced. This award recognizes innovative work based on information accessible through this FCCN Unit service, which has preserved millions of pages collected from the web since 1996.
In its 4th edition, which enjoyed the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic, 26 applications were received and the objective remained to demonstrate the usefulness of Arquivo.pt, as well as to reinforce 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, securing a prize worth €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 referring to social minorities.
The "Politiques" tool, created by David Batista, was awarded second prize, worth €3,000. The work consists of a platform that allows users to search for relationships of support or opposition between public figures and political parties. These links are established through the analysis of news headlines preserved in Arquivo.pt. According to the author, the database includes around 1,400 Portuguese figures affiliated with 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 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 the media partner, the Público newspaper. According to the author, the tool can be used in research or in a classroom setting.
The Call projects Call evaluated by an independent jury, composed 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 Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora; Maria Beatriz Marques, Professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Literature in the field of Documentary Sciences; and Teresa Firmino, editor of the Science section of the Público newspaper. The awards will be officially presented at the 2021 Science Meeting, which will take place from June 28 to 30.
Attachments:
Application videos
– Major Minors project
– Politiquices project
– First pages of Portuguese online newspapers project
– Video summary of the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2021