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Guidelines: Archived ADC performance documents
Audio-Visual Working Group

Main high-quality guideline

2012 February. Consultant’s report: Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Testing,(PDF, 499 KB). Consultant’s report as originally delivered.

2012 June. Initial version of explanatory introduction: Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Test Method: Introduction, (PDF, 506 KB). Drafted in February 2012 and reformatted June 19, 2012.

2012 June. For-comment version of guideline: Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Testing, (PDF, 217 KB). Drafted in February 2012 and reformatted June 19, 2012.

2012 June. Comment summary 1: Comments on the guideline and introduction, (PDF, 84 KB).

2012 July. Comment summary 2: Comments on the guideline and introduction, (PDF, 119 KB).

All of the preceding comments were considered when the August 20, 2012, version of the guideline was drafted.

2012 August. Version 1.0 of guideline: Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Test Method: Guideline (High Level Performance), (PDF, 240 KB). Approved by Working Group, August 20, 2012.

Low-cost system

2016 September. Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Testing: Low Cost Performance Test Setup and Test Method, (PDF, 194 KB). Approved by Working Group, September 30, 2017.

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
This group works collaboratively on common and sustainable technical guidelines, methods, and practices for digitized and born digital sound recordings and moving images.

Last Updated: 03/26/2019