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Web archivists: please answer 3 quick questions regarding resources committed to web archiving
We are conducting a preliminary study regarding the efforts being committed world-wide to web archiving.
Scientific study presents a characterization of the information needs of Web Archive users
This research focuses on what the users intents are and which topics are most interesting to them. Three instruments were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data: search logs, an online questionnaire and a laboratory study.
Scientific study presents a search log analysis of a search engine
This research presents a characterization of the information-seeking behaviour of the users of a Portuguese web search engine, based on the analysis of its logs.
Project proposals for Research & Development activities are now available in English
The Portuguese Web Archive aims to cooperate with Research and Development organizations interested in participating in innovative activities. This list presents project proposals with an estimated duration of 1 year. New project proposals presented by R&D organizations are welcome.
One-click access to a page history
The "History of this page" button is a tool that enables you to access directly to the history of the page you are visiting.
Scientific study about Web accessibility conducted in collaboration with the Archive
This research, conducted by the HCIM group from the University of Lisbon in collaboration with the Portuguese Web Archive, presents a measurement of the Portuguese Web accessibility for people with disabilities.
2005 contents provided by the National Library can now be searched
The contents provided by the National Library of Portugal were successfully integrated and can be searched through our experimental search system.
Search over the past Web is available
The Portuguese Web Archive released a service that enables search and access to web contents that are no longer available online.
Copy of the Portuguese Web kept by volunteers
Voluntarily, rARC contributors have offered enough disk space to save a backup copy of the Portuguese Web.
2nd best paper at LA-Web
The paper "Trends in Web characteristics" authored by the Portuguese Web Archive team received an award at the conference LA-Web 2009.
Recommendations for web authors
The Portuguese Web Archive published guidelines to enable the creation of contents for preservation.
Paper will be presented at LA-Web on November 11
The paper Trends in Web characteristics will be presented at LA-Web 2009, on November 11, 2009.
Lend a little disk space to preserve the Web
Anyone can contribute to preserve the information published on the Web. You just need to install a simple application on your computer.
Anyone can suggest a Portuguese site to be archived
The PWA released a service that enables anyone to suggest a Portuguese site to be archived.
Follow interesting references about web archiving on Twitter!
The PWA maintains a Twitter containing interesting references related to web archiving.
