At a time when registrations are now open for the Arquivo.pt Award 2024, we remembered the winners of the last edition and heard their testimonies.
1st place: “Traveling through time on rails”
In July 2023, the work "Traveling in Time on Rails," by Antero Pires, Carlos Cipriano, Diogo Ferreira Nunes, and Ruben Martins, won first place in the Arquivo.pt Award. The project showcased the evolution of CP – Comboios de Portugal's timetables over 20 years, revealing the investment in the sector.
According to Ruben Martins, “It was great to realize that, with a platform accessible to everyone, we could make public information much clearer than it actually is."We hope that the lines and conclusions of our project will have a positive impact on making travel faster, something that is only possible, however, if there is real public investment in this sector."
2nd place: “Representation of women artists in the national press”
Written by Cláudia Sevivas and Miguel Boavida, this work won second place in the competition last year. It's a website that gathers information about female artists and explores their representation in the press.
Cláudia Sevivas shared her testimony: “This award will help us move forward with the project. We want people to be able to go directly to our website and have all the information about an artist: from their biography, the artworks they produced and in which galleries, among other aspects.”
3rd place: “Political Memory”
Miguel Lopes, Maria Carneiro, and João Andrade were the third-highest-ranked candidates in 2023. "Political Memory" is the name of their project, which consists of a collection of historical pages of Portuguese parties currently represented in the Assembly of the Republic, and which allows for intuitive and interactive analysis of information about each party.
These winners were “very happy to have the work we have done over eight months recognized. We now intend to increase the information we have on our website and to always update it with new data made available by Arquivo.pt.”.
Honorable Mention Audience: “Newspaper Factory”
Miguel Almeida received an honorable mention from Jornal Público with a digital newspaper created with content from several years ago, where users can consult not only news but also jokes, films, sports, etc.
“Winning this award is a great feeling. It's something that keeps me striving for excellence and achieving new heights. That was my goal from the start: to bring this newspaper to the top, and I've achieved it.”, refers to the winner.
Honorable Mention Aveiro Media Competence Center: “Imaginarium”
“Imaginarium”, by Diogo Sousa, is a web application that searches for images based on similarities with other images and which won an honorable mention from the AMCC.
By participating in the award, Diogo Sousa wanted to “learn from the project. This recognition shows that my learning was good enough to receive the award and that people think it has some value.”.
In the future, the intention is for this solution to be implemented on the Arquivo.pt platform as a tool for its users, enabling them to search directly for images.
Applications for the Arquivo.pt Award 2024 until May 6th
Anyone who wants to follow in the footsteps of these winners and emerge victorious from the new edition of the Arquivo.pt Award must submit their work, individually or in groups, on any topic, which has as its main source of information the Arquivo.pt, until May 6th.
The new edition has three prizes to award: The first-place winner will receive €10,000, and the second-place winner will receive €3,000. Third-place winners will receive €2,000. Three honorable mentions will also be awarded. The first is from the newspaper Público; the second is from the Aveiro Media Competence Center (AMCC) consortium; and finally, one is awarded by the DNS.pt Association (.PT). More information at: https://sobre.arquivo.pt/pt/colabore/premios-arquivo-pt/premio-arquivo-pt-2024/
The initiative has the High Patronage of the President of the Portuguese Republic.
Full interviews with the winners at FCCN YouTube channel.
