Preserving Digital Cartoons
Lead Partner: Universal Press Syndicate
Universal Press Syndicate, a newspaper syndication company, will use a collection of Garry Trudeau’s "Doonesbury" comic strips and Pat Oliphant’s editorial cartoons to model and test the transfer of digital content to the Library of Congress. The project will constitute a case study for public-private partnerships for archiving digital content and will focus on aligning metadata practices, transfer procedures and continuing collection management in a manner consistent with the goals of digital preservation.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate access and display of digital cartoons within LC cataloging system.
- Successfully transfer digital cartoons with associated metadata to the Library of Congress.
- Tool: BagIt Format Specification for Transferring Digital Content
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