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Technical Guidelines Now Available | August 24, 2010
The Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials represents shared best practices followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).  This comprehensive document reflects the current recommendations of the working group and reflects changes that have occurred in the digitization field during the last five years.

Evaluating Digitization and Digitization Equipment (PDF, 2.45 MB) | August 16, 2010

An overview of the recent technical guidelines developed by FADGI, and how they can be used to evaluate the results of digitization and digitization equipment. Presentation given by Michael Stelmach on August 16, 2010 for the "Issues and Answers in Digitization" Workshop Series, sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and FADGI.

Information Standards Quarterly article (PDF, 5.28 KB) | Spring 2010

The article "Format Considerations in Audio Visual Preservation Reformatting: Snapshots from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative" by Carl Fleischhauer was published in the Spring 2010 issue of ISQ: Information Standards Quarterly.

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.