What is Ondarenet?

The evolution of information technologies and the spreading popularity of the Internet are facilitating the digitization of undeniably significant historical, scientific and cultural bibliographic material and the production of born-digital documents, all requiring preservation for coming generations.

This situation has led to the birth of international projects aimed at collecting and conserving the web-engendered digital heritage, such as Pandora, Minerva, Internet Archives or Padicat.

Ondarenet, the Basque Digital Heritage Archive, endeavours to preserve and disseminate the Basque digital heritage, i.e. digital resources stemming from the knowledge or expression of Basque society in its multiple facets worthy of conservation for posterity.

The project took its first steps in 2007, spearheaded by the Basque Government Department of Culture with the backing and collaboration of EJIE (the Basque Government IT services company)

Information is captured, conserved and organised with International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)-approved tools compliant to international standards. The toolkit comprises: Heritrix, NutchWAX, WebCurator y Wayback.

Related documents

  • Zaragoza University Summer Course “Digital preservation: challenges and current proposals”, held at Jaca (Huesca) from 22 to 24 July 2013.
  • International Conference on Web Archives and Electronic Legal Deposit, held at the National Library of Spain (Madrid) on 9 July 2013.
  • El archivo de Internet: bibliotecas que piensan en el futuro. Seminary celebrated during the 12th Spanish Documentation Conference FESABID 2011 (Málaga) on May 25, 2011. Dedicated seminary to show the present situation of some national projects that have by objective the file of Internet, for the capture and preservation of the published digital patrimony in Internet.
    • Ondarenet: euskal ondare digitala (pdf, 3,88 MB). Francisca Pulgar Vernalte (Head of the Basque Government Library Service) and Modesto Marin Tamayo (Documentalist of company ODEI).
  • Ondarenet: the Basque Digital Heritage Archive. Paper from the X Conference on Information Management, held in Madrid on 20 and 21 November 2008.