Monographs

On the occasion of the referendum on the independence of Catalonia on October 1, 2017 Padicat collected intensively 37 resources corresponding to the web of parties, institutions and media.

Along the same lines as the special issues about the elections to the Catalan Parliament on 2006, and the local elections on 2007, Padicat offers a new special issue about the general elections to the Spanish Congress and Senate.

On September 27 2015, the elections to Parliament were held in Catalonia. Moret han 5 million Catalans were called up to the ballot box, in a different elections due to the political situation in Catalonia. This special situation resulted in party coalitions, unitary lists and political polarization.

Along the same line started in 2006, Padicat has carried out a special collection focused on the local elections in Catalonia.

According to the trend initiated on 2006 with the first monographic compilation of web resources for the elections to the Catalan Parliament that year, PADICAT has been carrying out a monographic for each electoral campaign involving the Catalan citizenship. As well for the elections to the Catalan Parliament that took place on November 25, 2012.

The eleventh elections to the Spanish Parliament since the democratic transition were held on November 20, 2011. These are the second Spanish elections in which the Biblioteca de Catalunya has carried out an intensive harvesting of digital resources related to this event.

Since 2006 we harvest a focused collection of election campaign websites in Catalonia . On May 22, 2011, local elections were held and PADICAT captured 47.429 captures of 3.352 digital resources of 1.085 candidates of 177 politic groups.

Since 2006, the Biblioteca de Catalunya has been working on the internet monographics about the elections carried out in Catalonia. The last 28th of November were held parliamentary elections, and consequently, were harvested over 22.000 captures in different versions from 967 websites (blogs and websites of 246 candidates from 39 political parties with and without parliamentary representation, institutions and 56 media).

PADICAT presents a new monographic dedicated to the museums and collections of Catalonia opened to the public. A wide selection has been carried out 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 sites, etc.).