Improving the robustness of the Arquivo.pt web archive
Channel: Arquivo.pt: pesquise páginas do passado
Date: 2018-02-02

This presentation provides an overview of the architecture and functioning of the system that supports the Arquivo.pt web archive. 

It shares the main lessons learned from the experience of developing this service and provides recommendations useful to proactively improve the quality of any web-based information systems. 

In 2017, the Arquivo.pt web archive celebrated 10 years since the project start. However, in 2013 the project suffered a severe drawback caused by a hardware malfunction.  Plus, 4 of the 5 team members that developed Arquivo.pt left the project within 18 months. 

During the next 2 years, a continuous effort was applied to recover and improve the service. 

The system had to be rebuilt from scratch and a new team had to be trained at a fast pace. The entire system architecture was redesigned and best practices were applied to improve its robustness.

Slides:
http://sobre.arquivo.pt/wp-content/uploads/RecoveringImprovingRobustness.pdf

Slides with notes:
http://sobre.arquivo.pt/wp-content/uploads/RecoveringImprovingRobustnessNotes.pdf