Tiered Community Recommendations for Content Authenticity and Provenance (TCR4CAP)
Audio-Visual Working Group

Initiated in early 2026, the FADGI AV Working Group has established a new action team to develop tiered community recommendations for content authenticity and provenance (CAP) for digital audiovisual collections. The effort, inspired by the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation, aims to help government, library, archive, and museum institutions determine practical, resource-appropriate approaches to documenting authenticity—especially in an era where AI increasingly interacts with institutional collections. The project is defining levels of practice ranging from basic integrity checks to more advanced implementations such as embedded provenance metadata or trust-center integrations. The framework is not intended to certify files or systems, but to support institutional planning, policy development, and shared community understanding.

A draft for public comment is expected to be released in summer 2026.

For more information, contact [email protected].

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.