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Library of Congress to digitally preserve Doonesbury and Oliphant

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Alan Gardner Updated: August 6, 2007 at 9:13 am EDT 1 minute 0 comments

The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, it will begin digitally archiving a broad range of creative works including photos, cartoons, motion pictures, audio and video games.

As far as cartoons:

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.

Hat tip: Mike Rhode