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Characterizing Search Behavior in Web Archives: we have published a video about a study we performed
Talk about the search behavior characterization of web archive users, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive.
Collection from 1996 to 2000 can now be searched
A collection of contents from the .PT domain between 1996 and 2000, provided by the Internet Archive, has been successfully integrated in the Portuguese Web Archive.
Trends in the evolution of the Web: we have published a video about our study
Talk about the evolution of Web characteristics, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive.
Usability in practice: we have published a video about our experience
We share our experience with usability processes used to solve problems in the development of the Portuguese Web Archive.
Scientific study characterizes search behaviour in a Web archive
This research presents a search behaviour characterization of Web archive users. Detailed statistics about the users' sessions, queries, terms and clicks were analised from search logs.
Web archiving initiatives: we created a page on Wikipedia
Following the survey performed to draw a picture of web archiving worldwide, we created a Wikipedia page named "List of Web Archiving Initiatives".
Video about the Portuguese Web Archive
The Portuguese Web Archive was presented at the Jornadas FCCN, on the 9th February, 2011.
Collection provided by photojournalist has been successfully integrated
A collection of journalistic pieces written by Dinis Manuel Alves published on the Web between 1997 and 2003 was supplied by the author to the Portuguese Web Archive.
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.
