History

This project is the official initiative for archiving the Portuguese web and started in 2007. However, the original idea came in 2001 with a project called tumba! (Portuguese initials of "we have an alternative search engine!"), developed by the research group XLDB of the University of Lisbon and supported by FCCN.

Tumba! enabled term search over the last crawl of the Portuguese web only. Following tumba!, came the Tomba Portuguese web  archive prototype, named after the Tombo Tower which is the Portuguese National Archive established in 1378. Tomba enables access to different versions of contents collected by tumba! for 4 years (2002-2006).

The FCCN team currently working in the Portuguese web archive project is composed by two former researchers of tumba!.

The know-how and experience gained from these academic projects were crucial to the development of the Portuguese Web Archive at FCCN. However, the Portuguese Web Archive is being implemented different technology.

This is our history, now we have the responsibility to preserve History.