Arquivo.pt
web archive of Portugal
Arquivo.pt, formerly known as the Portuguese Web Archive, is a web archive that preserves Web content dating back to 1996. It is a service of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and was founded at the Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional on the 8th November 2007.
Arquivo.pt collects regularly all the websites that are part of the Portuguese Web, in other words, all the websites with the .pt top level domain, as well as all the websites of the national interest. The preserved content is available one year after its collection for any user on the Arquivo.pt website.
As of March 2025, Arquivo.pt stores over 21 billion webpages from 47 million websites, totaling 1.4 petabytes of data.
History
The original idea of archiving the Portuguese Web started in 2001 with the project tumba!, developed by the XLDB investigation group at the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon and it was supported by FCCN (Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional), where it collected about 57 million pieces of content, mainly textual. From this project, Tomba started.
On the 8th November 2007, the project for the Portuguese Web Archive was created at FCCN, after it as combined the resources and skills acquired at the previous project. The project was led by Daniel Coelho Gomes from 2007 to 2025. At the beginning of 2008, the project team made their first web crawl of .pt websites.
“Arquivo.pt” enters the record as web archive of Portugal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arquivo and Portugal can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Arquivo.pt” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Arquivo and Portugal provides the most credible route into that argument.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4117880. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2007, 2025 and 2001.
Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Arquivo.pt”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Arquivo.pt primary sources, Arquivo.pt archive and Arquivo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Arquivo.pt”?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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This entry incorporates text from “Arquivo.pt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.