Abstract
Over the past few decades, the amount of information generated turned the Web into the largest knowledge infrastructure existing to date. Web archives have been at the forefront of data preservation, preventing the losses of significant data to humankind. Different snapshots of the web are saved everyday enabling users to surf the past web and to travel through this overtime. Despite these efforts, many people are not aware that the web is being preserved, often finding these infrastructures to be unattractive or difficult to use, when compared to common search engines. In this paper, we give a step towards making use of this preserved information to develop “Public Archive” an intuitive interface that enables end-users to search and analyze a large-scale of 67,242 past preserved news articles belonging to a Portuguese reference newspaper (“Jornal Público”). The referred collection was obtained by scraping 10,976 versions of the homepage of the “Jornal Público” preserved by the Portuguese web archive infrastructure (Arquivo.pt) during the time-period of 2010 to 2021. By doing this, we aim, not only to mark a stand in what respects to make use of this preserved information, but also to come up with an easy-to-follow solution, the Public Archive python package, which creates the roots to be used (with minor adaptations) by other news source providers interested in offering their readers access to past news articles.
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This work is financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within project LA/P/0063/2020 and by the project Text2Story, financed by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme – NORTE 2020 under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement and by National Funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project Text2Story, with reference PTDC/CCI-COM/31857/2017 (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-031857).
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Campos, R., Correia, D., Jatowt, A. (2023). Public News Archive: A Searchable Sub-archive to Portuguese Past News Articles. In: Kamps, J., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13982. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_16
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