El PADICAT, l’experiència catalana en l’arxiu d’Internet

PADICAT (Digital Heritage of Catalonia) is a digital repository created in 2005 by the Library of Catalonia with the aim of collecting, processing and providing permanent access to the digital heritage of Catalonia via the Internet. Its collection policy is founded on a hybrid strategy, which is based on the massive collection of the .cat domain, selective collection by agreement with the agents producing Catalan web pages and collection focused on public events. The archive collection is freely accessible on the Internet. Five years down the line and with the international context in mind, this article describes the PADICAT operating system and the future challenges that await it