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 . The aim of the project is to acquire, preserve and make available knowledge and information on the Internet of the day for coming generations and to create the Web archive of Catalonia.

The PADICAT project is based on 3 working lines: the massive compilation of digital resources published in Internet, like the websites with the domain .CAT; the promotion of lines of research into certain events in the Catalan public life, like the campaign on the Internet during the last elections to the Spanish Parliament; and the impulse to the cooperation with the institutions representing Catalan civil society, in order to ensure that the different versions of their digital productions get incorporated systematically to the PADICAT.

In order to drive forward jointly the Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), along with Termcat, the BC has signed collaboration agreements with other 299 institutions that support the project, including some city councils, regional councils, companies, professional associations, savings banks, museums and cultural entities of all kinds.