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Paper CD9-1

Development of a Digital Preservation Program at the Library of Congress

Carl Fleischhauer, Samuel Brylawski
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

This paper will trace the development of a digital preservation program for sound recordings at the Library of Congress. It will outline the Library�s use of METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard); survey the challenges faced in the Library�s work to create digital objects for public use, comprised of sound files and images of packaging and accompanying materials; and review the tools and methods utilized to create metatdata.

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