Review of research article from Indexer

 Here is my review of the Research Article

Title: Indexing Cartoons

Authors: Nicholas Hiley

Year of Publication: 2006, October

Journal: The Indexer

DOI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.27

The article review Indexing Cartoons by Nicholas Hiley was published in October 2006 in The Indexer journal.   The article explores the indexing of cartoons with history. The author has stated the origin indexing cartoon which begins in 1973 by way of index cards that happened at the University of Kent. The paper discussed about the usage of cartoons by the University which started with 20,000 cartoons and now more than 1,10,000 the cartoon which it holds 50,000 by its own and others were a loan. The author portrait the information of digitalization of cartoons and caricature and indexing of cartoon for fast retrieval of information by was indexing the cartoons in digital form.

The article focuses the creating metadata for each cartoon in digital mode. The paper discussed about the problems of indexing like censorship of the article, difficulty of metadata when more than one rough work and some of the cartoons are having two versions. The article has given a few examples of cartoon with the controversies. 

Finally, the author pointed out the solution for indexing of cartoon is by way of software editorial rights to the readers of The Indexer Journal, so that expertise in indexing may give solutions to the problems of cartoon indexing.

 

 

References

Hilet, N. (2006, October). Indexing cartoons. The Indexer, 25(2), 100-104.