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 The Spain 2008 general elections, at PADICAT
The digital archive shows the political campaign of the last Spain general elections, with the harvesting of more than 150 web pages from political parties, candidates blogs, institutional webs and mass media.
The web of the Padicat repository (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), supported by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia), and the technological collaboration of CESCA, Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya, has added to its collection a wide digital compilation on the last Spain general elections, which took place on March 9th, 2008. This is the third monographic compilation on electoral processes carried out by Padicat, after the one on Catalan Parliament and the 2007 local elections monitoring.
A systematic monitoring on the several digital resources from political parties and candidates running for the Congress of Deputies and Senate for the four Catalan constituencies (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona), has been carried out, as well as the digital resources offered by the candidates running for president from national wide parties that already had parliamentary representation (IU, PP and PSOE). It means a total amount of more than 150 digital resources in several versions, from near to 40 political parties, candidates blogs, institutional webs and mass media.
So on, the electoral campaign of these last elections has been added to the repository that the Biblioteca de Catalunya devotes to collect, process and spread the web pages created in Catalonia, or interesting for the Catalan users.
Padicat, a digital repository with sole characteristics in Spain, allows users to access those resources that are still available on the net, but also to retrieve historic information from webs that are no longer availables, or those whose contents have been modified. Therefore, from the Padicat website it is possible to access to a set of diverse information and to monitor, from different points of view, the evolution of the elections on the internet.
Simultaneously to BC’s joining to International Internet Preservation Consortium, Padicat has carried out 3.666 harvestings from 1.174 webs, which represents more than 37 million files and a volume of 1,6 TB of stored data. The final goal is to add these digital editions to its collections, to guarantee its future preservation.
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PADICAT incorporates the Folk Rock Digital Music
The repository of the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia) has added 56 digital resources about Folk Rock Music.
Today Internet is the new channel in the music distribution. The popularity of the music bands are ranked on the website, the websites are channels of proliferation of music, and sometimes the hardware of the music can not be found, like CD’s. Published only in Internet web pages, a great part of the musical heritage of our country can disappear.
The PADICAT repository is responsible for the access to the Catalan websites. Thanks to the collaboration of Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, PADICAT was able to successfully selected 56 digital resources of the Folk Rock Music. The monograph of the Folk Rock Digital Music contains many different examples of the musical bands from the cultural and Catalan speaking countries, where Internet is being used as the communication media for the development of their music. The monograph is also accessible to the digital resources about festivals, communication media, discographic and managing companies of the actual music with one search available to each corresponding resource. It is also planning to add up the various versions of the same search for each six months.
The Biblioteca de Catalunya initiated the PADICAT repository in June 2005 to collect and preserve the entire cultural, scientific and general output of Catalonia in digital format. After three-year digital preservation of the Catalan websites, the responsible managers for the PADICAT declared that the object of PADICAT had been achieved with satisfaction. The result of the balance was presented at the 10th Catalan Conference on Information & Documentation, with the participation of 600 professionals from libraries, files, and centers of documentation of Catalonia, which took place on May 22th and 23th in the Barcelona International Convention Center.
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PADICAT reaches 300 agreements
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia) andTermcat, Centre de Terminologia have signed a collaboration agreement through which Termcat joins the PADICAT project. This is the 300th entity to join the group of companies, local governments, professional associations and associations from any kind which have become a member in the project that the BC is managing, with collaboration of CESCA (Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya) and the Secretaria de Telecomunicacions i Societat de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya . The aim of the project is to acquire, preserve and make available knowledge and information on the Internet of the day for coming generations and to create the Web archive of Catalonia.
The PADICAT project is based on 3 working lines: the massive compilation of digital resources published in Internet, like the websites with the domain .CAT; the promotion of lines of research into certain events in the Catalan public life, like the campaign on the Internet during the last elections to the Spanish Parliament; and the impulse to the cooperation with the institutions representing Catalan civil society, in order to ensure that the different versions of their digital productions get incorporated systematically to the PADICAT.
In order to drive forward jointly the Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), along with Termcat, the BC has signed collaboration agreements with other 299 institutions that support the project, including some city councils, regional councils, companies, professional associations, savings banks, museums and cultural entities of all kinds.
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PADICAT adds a theme directory to improve access to the digital heritage
The web of the Padicat project (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), supported by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia), has added a theme directory that allows to widen its searching capabilities and completes the full text search.
In this way, we improve the access of users to the 34 million files in which the digital repository consists, classifying the digital resources in seven fields of knowledge: Culture; Science & Technology; Business; Sports; Health; Society; and Information Society, divided in 72 subjects. The navigation structure is completed with an eighth field dedicated to the special collections about the campaigns of 2006 and 2007 elections.
The new directory takes as a reference world renowned projects, as the UK Web Archive and, as an example, will allow users to acces with two “clics” to the 62 resources classified as Professional associations, to the 60 resources in the subject Local administration or to the 25 digital resources in which the subject Museums, Libraries & Archives consists, among many others.
The new searching interface is completed by a list with all the digital resources in the repository, and with an alphabetic list, which allows to access to different versions of each website.
The Biblioteca de Catalunya initiated the Padicat project in June 2005, to collect and preserve the entire cultural, scientific and general output of Catalonia in digital format. The project has the technological collaboration of the Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA) and has a budget of 766.000 euros.
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The International Internet Preservation Consortium selects PADICAT as a model of Web Archive
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) has selected the PADICAT project (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), which is being led by the Biblioteca de Catalunya, as a model of Web Archive, in its section "Featured Members", whose goal is to show to the international community a reference digital resource.
The Office of Strategic Initiatives of the Library of Congress, Communication Responsible for the IIPC, has emphasized the role of PADICAT in presenting the data gathered in the special collection dedicated to the local elections in Catalonia during 2007 (http://www.padicat.cat/municipals2007.php).
The IIPC, in which the National Library of Catalonia participates, brings together the 26 leading institutions in the preservation of the Internet with the purpose of sharing knowledge in order to make the current Internet available to coming generations.
The project is planning in the following weeks to widen its searching capabilities through a theme directory that completes the full text search, which allows users to access to the 34 million files of the digital archive.
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