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 The Biblioteca de Catalunya adds 14.256 new versions of .CAT webs at PADICAT's repository
The number of harvested sites of the Catalan Internet has been doubled, up to reach 22.931 digital resources
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (BC) has published the information relative to its repository, PADICAT (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), created to guarantee the preservation of the Catalan digital resources published on the Internet. In march 2010, it preserves 22.931 harvestings from 17.063 web sites, occupying a space of storage of approximately 7,7 Terabytes from a total amount of 186 million files.
These 22.931 harvestings represents an increase of 107% in the last year, from the 11.056 harvested versions of 8.800 digital resources to the 22.931 harvested versions of 17.063 web sites. The reason of this significative growth lies in the extension of the computer nodes managed by the Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA), technological partner of the BC in the preservation of Catalan digital contents on the Internet.
Harvesting of web sites with .CAT domain has been prioritized in the year 2009. Until march 2009 these resources were representing the 18% of PADICAT’s collection, with a total amount of 4.256 harvested versions from 4.000 web sites. One year later, .CAT domain represents the 62% of PADICAT’s resources, with a total amount of 14.256 harvested versions from 14.004 web sites. The incorporation of the .CAT domain to PADICAT’s collection is the result of the cooperation agreement between the BC and the Fundació puntCAT, signed on November 10, 2006.
The Biblioteca de Catalunya systematicly harvests several versions of Catalan web pages on the Internet, thanks to the 437 cooperation agreements signed with entities and associations; 292 digital resources proposed by visitors and users of PADICAT’s web site; 5.472 harvested web sites from monographic collections (museums of Catalonia, electoral campaigns in the successive elections, folk-rock music), and the .CAT domain.
PADICAT is one of the 36 existing web archives in the world, grouped at the International Internet Preservation Consortium, formed by National Libraries and Archives from different countries, with the aim of contributing to the preservation of web pages published on the Internet.
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The Biblioteca de Catalunya adds 1.532 web pages from the museums of Catalonia
The PADICAT repository (Digital Heritage of Catalonia) has selected and harvested the Internet digital resources of museums and open collections of Catalonia
The Biblioteca de Catalunya has selected and harvested 1.532 digital resources on the Internet related to the 657 museums and open collections of Catalonia, with the aim of preserving its content and to guarantee its permanent access.
This selection and harvesting of the sites of Catalonia's museums, is a new monographic of the PADICAT repository (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), the digital repository assigned since 2005 to the creation of Catalonia's web archive. The monographic contains 1.532 digital resources geographically and alphabetically arranged. From the 657 museums identified with presence on the Internet, the province of Barcelona accumulates almost the half of all the museum's installations of Catalonia, with the 46'3%, followed by the demarcation of Tarragona with the 19% of them, the province of Lleida with the 18'1%, and finally the regions of the province of Girona, with the 16'6%.
Through a deep search in several resources directories (search engine of museums and collections of the Generalitat de Catalunya, web sites of the 4 Catalan deputations, patronages of tourism of the regional councils, municipal web sites, etc.), it has been achieved the identification of museums an open collections of Catalonia, and carried out the harvesting of its web pages on the Internet, to reach a total amount of 1.532 digital resources, between the museum's sites theirselves and the digital resources external to these but containing information about them as well.
The Director of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, Mrs. Dolors Lamarca, has pointed that "museum's web sites of Catalonia contain an essential part of our heritage, and because of it we destine efforts to guarantee its preservation and the permanent access of the whole citizenship".
The monographic Museums of Catalonia on the Internet is already available at Padicat's, www.padicat.cat, and adds itself to the 14.061 harvestings of the 10.508 web pages belonging to companies, professional associations, city councils of Catalonia, and cultural, social and sports entities that shape the Digital Heritage of Catalonia. Padicat's collection consists on 143 million digital files occupying a space of storage of approximately 6,3 Terabytes.
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