News & Events - Archive

February 2010

Federal Computer Week article | February 5, 2010
Article about audio-visual collections and archiving in the federal government that includes coverage of the Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group.

September 2009

Presentation at IASA (PDF, 1.3 MB) | September 25, 2009
Carl Fleischhauer discussed the federal agencies initiative at the annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives on. After a general introduction, the main portion of the presentation provides an update on activities in the audiovisual working group.

May 2009

Presentation at Archiving 2009 (PDF, 2.28 MB) | May 7, 2009
Michael Stelmach and Carl Fleischhauer presented an overview of the federal agencies initiative at the IS&T Archiving 2009 conference in Arlington, Virginia, on.

October 2008

Federal News Radio interview (mp3 file) | October 16, 2008
Michael Stelmach and Carl Fleischhauer discuss this initiative in an interview for Federal News Radio.

Government Video article | October 1, 2008
Carl Fleischhauer is interviewed for an article in Government Video.

August 2008

GPO releases RFP for Mass Digitization | August 2008
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) submits A Request for Proposal for Mass Digitization Opportunities.

GPO releases RFI for Inventory of legacy publication | August 2008
The Government Printing Office (GPO) has conducted a market research to obtain estimates for a physical inventory of U.S. Federal government publications.

June 2008

GPO Re-Launches Registry of U.S. Government Publication | June 2008
GPO has re-launched the Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects.

October 2007

Library of Congress Collaborates with Xerox to Test JPEG 2000 Format | October 2007
The Library and Xerox collaborate to study the potential of using the JPEG 2000 format in large repositories of digital cultural heritage materials.

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.