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.