This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner. Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate working groups were formed with the possibility that more tightly focused groups might be necessary as the work progressed. The Federal Agencies Still Image Digitization Working Group will concentrate its efforts on image content such as books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group is focusing its work on sound, video, and motion picture film.
Announcements
Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials - draft guidelines available.
Advisory Board Member - Lotfi Belkhir joins Advisory Board.
Current Documents
Digital Imaging Standards - Updated
(January 28, 2010)
Gap Analysis - Updated
(January 12, 2010)
Digitization Activities - Project Planning - Approved
(November 4, 2009)
News & Events
Article
Article by Carl Fleischhauer in Information Standards Quarterly (Spring 2010) "Format Considerations in AudioVisual Preservation Reformatting"
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Last Updated: 07/23/2010