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.

The web of the Padicat repository (Digital Heritage of Catalonia), supported by the Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia), and the technological collaboration of CESCA, Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya, has added to its collection a wide digital compilation on the last Spain general elections, which took place on  March 9th, 2008. This is the third monographic compilation on electoral processes carried out by Padicat, after the one on Catalan Parliament and the 2007 local elections monitoring.

A systematic monitoring on the several digital resources from political parties and candidates running for the Congress of Deputies and Senate for the four Catalan constituencies (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona), has been carried out, as well as the digital resources offered by the candidates running for president from national wide parties that already had parliamentary representation (IU, PP and PSOE). It means a total amount of more than 150 digital resources in several versions, from near to 40 political parties, candidates blogs, institutional webs and mass media.

So on, the electoral campaign of these last elections has been added to the repository that the Biblioteca de Catalunya devotes to collect, process and spread the web pages created in Catalonia, or interesting for the Catalan users.

Padicat, a digital repository with sole characteristics in Spain, allows users to access those resources that are still available on the net, but also to retrieve historic information from webs that are no longer availables, or those whose contents have been modified. Therefore, from the Padicat website it is possible to access to a set of diverse information and to monitor, from different points of view, the evolution of the elections on the internet.

Simultaneously to BC’s joining to International Internet Preservation Consortium, Padicat has carried out 3.666 harvestings from 1.174 webs, which represents more than 37 million files and a volume of 1,6 TB of stored data. The final goal is to add these digital editions to its collections, to guarantee its future preservation.