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.

This project is supporting the efforts of the C2PA for G+LAM (Government plus Libraries, Archives and Museums) Community of Practice, especially the goals set out in the Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community (Feb 2026) white paper.

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.