The Basque diaspora online

The internet has also served to keep what the diaspora wrote about itself. Two projects act as archives today: one institutional, which has digitised a century of press, and the other personal, the website a student opened in 1994 and which is still open.

Urazandi Digital is the Basque Government’s project to gather the press of the diaspora. It began in 2003 and today offers 183 publications and almost 200,000 pages, published in 17 countries on three continents over the course of a century. There are magazines of Basque centres, but also of companies, schools, parties and delegations of the Basque Government. Argentina is the country that contributes the most titles (38), followed by France (37), Venezuela (29) and Mexico (23). The materials are published under a Creative Commons licence unless otherwise stated.¹⁹

Buber’s Basque Page turned 25 in 2020 and is still active. According to the website itself, it has close to a thousand pages and more than 16,000 visits a day. The NABO federation recognised it in 1998, and in 2006 it received the awards for the best Basque websites, which bear its name: the Buber Sariak. Of all its sections, the most consulted has been the one on Basque surnames, the work of Xabier Ormaetxea.⁴