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FCT NOVA researchers 2nd place of the Arquivo.pt Award

08-07-2019

Arquivo.pt Award 2019

Research work developed at FCT NOVA won the 2nd place of the Arquivo.pt Award, delivered during the opening session of the Ciência 2019 meeting, on the morning of 8 July.

Flávio Martins and André Mourão, researchers from NOVA LINCS, FCT NOVA's research center, competed with the project "Revisionist: Des-cobre as notícias", an online tool that allows to reveal post-publication changes in Portuguese news.

The three winners, Luís Moniz Pereira, Full Professor honored at Ciência 2019, and the two researchers  awarded with Arquivo.pt prize.
The researchers with the FTC NOVA's Head of the Department of Informatics, Luís Caires

 

The Arquivo.pt Award aims to award  annually innovative works based on historical information preserved by Arquivo.pt. The presented work must be practical applications or studies based on the information accessible through Arquivo.pt, which demonstrate the usefulness of this public service and the importance of preserving the information published on the web. Arquivo.pt is an online research platform that preserves millions of pages collected from the web since 1996 and provides a public search service on this historical information.