On July 7th, the prizes were awarded to the winners of the 2023 edition of the Arquivo.pt Award.
THE Science Meeting 2023, at the University of Aveiro, was the stage for the awards ceremony for the winners of the 2023 edition of the Arquivo.pt Award. The initiative aims to distinguish works whose source was the collection of Arquivo.pt – a free, open-access public service that allows you to search and access web pages archived since 1996.
This year, the competition received 40 candidate works, of which the top three were selected and two honorable mentions were awarded by the newspaper Público and the Aveiro Media Competence Center.
1st place
The prize, worth 10 thousand euros, went to the work “Time travel on rails", developed by Antero Pires, Carlos Cipriano, Diogo Ferreira Nunes, and Ruben Martins. It's an online platform that analyzes and presents the evolution of train travel times in Portugal, based on schedules stored on Arquivo.pt.
2nd place
To the project “Representation of women artists in the national press” was awarded a prize of 3 thousand euros. The work by Cláudia Sevivas and Miguel Boavida resulted in the website I exist, which provides information about Portuguese artists and lists the websites where they have been mentioned over time. This project is based on an analysis of their representation and visibility, allowing for multiple interpretations.
3rd place
“Political Memory" came in third place and received a prize of 2,000 euros. Developed by Miguel Lopes, Maria Carneiro, and João Andrade, this project resulted in a web application that processes and displays information taken from the web pages of the political parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic, archived by Arquivo.pt.
Honorable Mentions
The honorable mention from the Público newspaper went to the project “Newspaper Factory“, which allows us to generate a personalized newspaper from news preserved on Arquivo.pt, allowing you to obtain a version that you can print or save in digital format.
The Aveiro Media Competence Center (AMCC) awarded its honorable mention to the work “Imaginarium”, created by Diogo Sousa, a web application that searches for images based on similarities with other images.
