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PADICAT reaches 400 agreements thanks to the agreement with Comediants
06-05-2009
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (BC) and the theatrical company Comediants have signed a collaboration agreement through which Comediants joins Padicat. This is the 400th 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 .
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The Spain 2008 general elections, at PADICAT
18-11-2008
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.
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PADICAT incorporates the Folk Rock Digital Music
10-06-2008
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.
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PADICAT reaches 300 agreements
16-04-2008
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 .
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PADICAT adds a theme directory to improve access to the digital heritage
18-02-2008
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.
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The International Internet Preservation Consortium selects PADICAT as a model of Web Archive
08-01-2008
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.
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HTML predominates in the Catalan web
20-12-2007
The PADICAT project (Digital heritage of Catalonia), led by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia) with the support of the Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA), has carried out an exhaustive analysis of the formats and technology used on the Catalan web, based in a sample of 1.000 websites of all kinds.
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The local elections of 2007, at PADICAT
23-11-2007
The project shows the presence of the candidates on the Internet in the last local elections, with more than 5.000 digital resources
The web of the Padicat project (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), supported by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia), has added to its collection a wide digital compilation on the last local elections, which took place on May 27th, 2007.
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PADICAT reaches 200 agreements thanks to the agreement with UPC, and in 2 months doubles the number of associated entities
22-05-2007
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia) and The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have signed a collaboration agreement through which the UPC joins the PADICAT project. This is the 200th 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 .
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PADICAT prepares for local elections
16-04-2007
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia), through the Padicat project (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), will carry out a special monitoring of the information appeared on the internet about the campaign for the coming local elections, on May 27th. This information will be included in the Library repository, as was done with the last elections to the Catalan Parliament.
