What it entails
BCNROC is Barcelona City Council's open-access institutional repository, through which the Council makes free access to its public digital documents available to citizens. The name stands for the Barcelona City Council’s Open-Knowledge Repository.
It is the tool that allows these information resources and their metadata to be collected, stored, managed, shared, transformed and disseminated in order to facilitate searches and their subsequent recovery, access and reuse.
BCNROC cross-departmental for the entire City Council as a single repository. Other municipal websites that disseminate municipal documentation send it there.
BCNROC is interoperable with other national and international open-access repositories; it is compatible with the OAI-PMH (Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) standards and protocols; and it allows documents to be reused by using the most open Creative Commons licenses possible. It also complies with the Dublin Core metadata standards to help facilitate the Semantic Web. Because it follows international standards, its documents can be found directly on international search engines like Google.
BCNROC opens to the world the contents of the documents born digital or digitalised, created by the Barcelona City Council and which are subject to public dissemination. The repository's collection is heterogeneous, with a wide range of contents and types of documents reflecting the documents that the City Hall produces. They are government measures and strategic plans; studies and reports, monographs, articles, journals, surveys, economic documents (costs, budgets and accounts), press packages, institutional statements, circulars, directives and protocols, along with audiovisual documents, photographs and graphic materials and other documents that report on the municipal government’s activities over time. As new document formats are created, we will weigh whether or not to integrate them into BCNROC. Thus, sound recordings will soon be included.
It also includes the digital collections of the Documents and Access to Knowledge Service of the Barcelona City Council (henceforth, SEDAC), a service created by the Mayoral delegation of 12 May 2015, which is a continuation of the efforts undertaken in 1983 by the City Council’s General Library.
In order to learn more specifically about the types of documents included, you can consult the circular that regulates its creation in the Mayoral Decree of 23 March 2015 , as well as the update in its Annex.
BCNROC also contains external documentation, as long as it is of interest to the city and they have the rights to use it.
The predominant language of the documents is Catalan. However, there are also municipal documents published in other languages like Spanish, English, French, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Urdu and Chinese, depending on their target audience.
- Mayoral Decree of 23 March 2015. Circular concerning to the guidelines of action in relation to the functioning of the open repository of the documentation of the Town Council of Barcelona (BCNROC). [CAT]
- Annex to the circular (Licences): Latest modification (PDF 108.35 KB)
- Mayoral delegation of 12 May 2015. Assignació i denominació de les funcions del SEDAC. [CAT]
- Dublin Core
Enllaços relacionats
Enllaços relacionats
- Act 23/2011, of 18 July, on Legal Diposit. [CAS]
- Royal Decree 635/2015, of 10 July, on Legal Deposit of Online Content. [CAS]
- Act 19/2013, of 9 December, on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance. [CAS]
- Collaboration agreement between the Gerència d'Àrea de Recursos i Transformació Digital and the Biblioteca de Catalunya, for the preservation of legal deposit of online content. [CAT]