The web archive placed at PADICAT (Digital Heritage of Catalonia) contains 107.804 harvestings from 39.401 websites, including the electoral campaigns on the Internet since 2006

The Biblioteca de Catalunya, as the institution responsible for preserving the bibliographic heritage in Catalonia, created the PADICAT repository (Digital Heritage of Catalonia) in 2005, to collect, process and provide permanent access to the old versions of the websites that compose the Catalan Web.

In Desember, 2010, the digital repository contains 107.804 harvestings from 39.401 websites from Catalan city councils, companies, associations and entities of all kind, with a total amount of data of 240 million files. All these versions are available at the website of the repository.

Since the Catalan Parliamentary elections 2006, when 775 versions from 88 websites were harvested, there have been carried out focused compilations of the several electoral campaigns, and in the case of these last elections, were selected and carried out 21.000 harvestings from 486 digital resources (blogs from 246 candidates, websites from the 39 political parties with and without parliamentary representation, institutional websites, 56 websites from the media and other digital resources from the social network).

The harvesting policy contemplates the digital resources from the political parties with parliamentary representation during the previous term (2006-2010); political parties without representation, with nominations officially recognized (DOGC 11/02/2010); blogs, websites, facebook, twitter, flickr and other digital resources of the leaders of each political party list for each constituency, as well as the main candidates of political parties with parliamentary representation; public institutions as the Parlament de Catalunya, the Departament de Governació i Administracions Publiques de la Generalitat, etc.; media nationwide, and a selection of personal blogs with intensive activity in the networks. The harvesting began on 16th of September 2010 and until the date of the investiture of the new President of the Generalitat.

PADICAT is a repository coordinated by the Biblioteca de Catalunya with the collaboration of the Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA) and the support of the Fundació puntCAT. The web archive is member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), an international consortium that groups the majority of the National libraries and archives with harvesting and preservation of the Internet programs.