An initiative between Gulbenkian and the FCCN Unit aims to contribute to the preservation and reuse of past and future web pages, with a focus on the world of contemporary Portuguese art.
Arquivo.pt promotes webinar series
Preserving the digital memory of contemporary Portuguese art through Arquivo.pt is one of the main objectives of the “Para Sempre” project, an initiative launched jointly by this service of the FCCN Unit, which preserves information published on the web, and the Arts and Archives Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
To achieve this goal, the project includes the holding a series of webinars that promote knowledge on this topicThe first of these events took place on April 29th, with the main theme being the preservation of digital memory and the role of Arquivo.pt. The session focused specifically on one of the project's central themes: you websites related to artists, galleries and other entities on the national scene.
The next sessions will take place in May (27th) and July (1st), continuing the project's objectives. As such, these two events will focus, respectively, on good practices necessary for a website to be preservable and the techniques for recording a website in a standardized format, so that it is preserved for the future.
You can learn more about this initiative and register for upcoming sessions here.