The Biblioteca de Catalunya adds 1.532 web pages from the museums of Catalonia

02-01-2010

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, 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.