News & Events

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Latest News

Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Testing. Guideline approved by Working Group, August 20, 2012.

Embedding Metadata in Broadcast WAVE Files. Guideline approved by Working Group, April 23, 2012.

Minimal Descriptive Embedded Metadata in Digital Still Images. Reviewed and Recommended by Working Group, March 23, 2012. Guideline created by the EMDaWG (Embedded Metadata Working Group) of the Smithsonian Institution.

Recent blogs:

• What IRENE Has to Say About Incremental Development and Digital Preservation (LC, June 2012)
• Audio Visual Working Group Update (LC, May 2012)
• Update on the FADGI Still Image Working Group (LC, April 2012)
• Report Puts the Focus on Independent Film Preservation (LC, February 2012)
• National Archives Digitization Tools Now on GitHub (NARA, October 2011)
• Information or Artifact? Four-part blog on digitizing books and photos. (LC, October 17-20, 2011)

Working Groups

Still Image Working Group
This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials.

Audio-Visual Working Group
The goal for this working group is to identify, establish, and disseminate information about standards and practices for the digital reformatting of audio-visual materials by federal agencies.