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More details about the Portuguese Web Archive

What is the Portuguese Web Archive?

It's a public non-profit service that aims to preserve for future access the information published on the Web of clear interest for the Portuguese community.

What can it be used for?

It can be used for:

searching information from the past that is no longer available on the Web
providing research resources, for instance, in the fields of History, Sociology or Linguistics

What motivated its creation?

After 1 year, only 20% of a set of addresses remain valid (Ntoulas, 2004). That is, 8 out of 10 of the pages that you saved on your browser Favorites will be lost after 1 year.

The amount of information that is published solely on the web has grown dramatically over the past few years. However, not long after it has been published, a large amount of this information ceases to be available online and is irrevocably lost.

If we wish future generations to have access to this information, it is important to archive and preserve what is published on the web.

What is the difference between Web and Internet?

The Internet is the communication infrastructure that link computers worldwide. There are several services on the Internet. The Web is one of them. Other services are, for instance:

The Web consists of pages and contents connected by hyperlinks. One may say that the Internet is equivalent to the roads, and the Web, email and other services are the different vehicles in circulation.