European Elections 2019. Collection of web content for preservation in Arquivo.pt

On May 26, 2019, the European Elections took place in Portugal. Arquivo.pt launched a special collection of electoral content and expanded the collection to all countries of the European Union via language. We started by defining a list of search terms (keywords). The search terms have been translated into 24 official languages. Bing Search API was used to perform searches automatically. As a result, a list of the first results for each search term was obtained. In addition to the automatic identification of content, a collaborative list was launched to collect national and international suggestions of electoral content. The collection or crawl took several steps: — pre-election collection (1) — 1st crawl — tested identification and collection in languages other than Portuguese — pre-election collection (2) — 2nd crawl — generated terms in the 24 official languages of the European Union — post-election collection (3)-3 rd crawl — used a list of terms with the EU’s revised translation by Publications Office — post-election collection (4)-4th crawl — a final post-election collection that brings together Bing results and community contributions More information: The recorded contents were gathered in the EAWP23 collection, with deadlines 2019-05-22 and 2019-07-17 and a volume of information of 4.8 Terabytes (see https://arquivo.pt/collections). News on the informative website of Arquivo.pt: https://sobre.arquivo.pt/pt/colecao-sobre-as-eleicoes-europeias-2019/ Search in Archive.pt: https://arquivo.pt/ee2019