Second edition of the award that recognizes three innovative uses of information preserved by the Portuguese Web Archive.
Prime Minister António Costa announced the winners during the opening session of the Science 2019 Meeting, held on July 8th at the Lisbon Congress Center.
The first prize, worth €10,000, was awarded to Arian Pasquali, Nuno Moniz and Tomás Amaro, as the team responsible for developing the application. myParliament.ptThis application invites all citizens to play the role of a member of parliament, simulating the plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic.
The decisions put to the user are those that have been taken in Parliament over the last decade. "We developed this idea with the aim of bringing citizens closer to the decisions made in our Parliament, and providing all the information necessary to contextualize this data.". reveal the authors, in the official description of the project.
It is precisely in this informative dimension that Arquivo.pt proves essential. This archive was used as a "single source" to "collect legislative proposals and their metadata," demonstrating Arquivo.pt's potential "as a repository of collective memory," the authors add.
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The second prize was awarded to the project Revisionista.pt, a platform that flags post-publication changes in Portuguese news. According to authors Flávio Martins and André Mourão, this is "a global analysis platform for the Portuguese press, based on the processing of large amounts of news from online newspapers."
The researchers—who are now receiving a €3,000 prize—add that "this work would not have been possible without Arquivo.pt, as it was used as the source for all the data collected." To complete this work, they collected 139,561 articles from the Portuguese Web Archive. "Of which 6,793 articles were edited more than once," they emphasize.
Zélia de Macedo Teixeira also analyzed published news reports as part of her research, "Public Discourses on Violence in Private." The researcher (who now receives €2,000) collected 217 news reports (published in the three main daily newspapers) about domestic violence from Arquivo.pt.
In the submitted description, Zélia Macedo Teixeira highlights that the way the media broadcasts domestic violence events “makes them powerful constructors of knowledge and behavior of individuals”, reaffirming their “political/social power for effective changes in societies”.
This year, the Arquivo.pt award received a total of 23 applications, and the 3rd edition is already in preparation, with the application period running from January to May 2020.
The Arquivo.pt Award aims to annually recognize innovative work based on historical information preserved by Arquivo.pt. The competition closed on May 3rd and received proposals in areas such as social communication, education, design, IT, health, and cultural and historical heritage. The 2019 Arquivo.pt Award was under the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
To learn more see the page dedicated to Arquivo.pt.
