Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

I'm going to go with one story this week: news that the Library of Congress has identified a number of webcomics worth of curation and storage and has announced a program in support.

It's a pretty good list for a start, and hopefully they've settled on a storage solution and plan to keep the collection stored yet available that takes care of what has been for years -- at least from my perspective -- worries about the ability to sustain a program through the changing needs that might become apparent as such a program ages. There's a lot of material whose creators will hope for curation.

I'm also interested to see a few years down the road if other institutions have joined them and how, and also how all the institutions will handle support and contextual material. The Cavna article gets a bit into that but I imagine there's more to come. Still: first one in the pool.
 
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