With a view to its conservation, 116 websites historical Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) are now accessible in the service Arquivo.pt Memorial.
This work, which aimed to save for the future a faithful representation of these previously published contents, occurred through collaboration between those responsible for websites and the team Arquivo.pt.
Among the pages now hosted on Arquivo.pt, there are some of research projects or scientific events. Although they are on the college's servers and their historical content continues to be of interest to the community, These websites were not updated – which is why they were chosen to migrate to Memorial.
The first page preserved was that of the scientific program MiNEMA. This website It stopped being updated in 2009 when the project ended, however, the college invested resources in its maintenance over the next 10 years.
Positive impact on resource management
After integrating the pages into the Memorial, FCUL only had to maintain the corresponding domains, as Arquivo.pt now preserves all the information they contained.
By shutting down the respective servers, it was possible save the resources that the Faculty spent on maintaining the pages, whether in terms of electricity, space or even human resources.
Other entities that already use Memorial Arquivo.pt
In addition to FCUL, the Government Computer Network Management Center has already preserved 23 of its websites at the Memorial and the Foundation for Science and Technology a total of 40.
Public institutions have priority to benefit from this service. However, other entities may also request it, as long as they hold the domain name. website.
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