Selected Blog Posts
2023
New FADGI Project: Researching Accessibility in Open-Source Digital Preservation Applications, May 30, 2023
Getting the Band Back Together: Recap of FADGI Audiovisual Working Group Meeting, May 18, 2023
3rd Edition of FADGI Still Image Digitization Guidelines Finalized, May 11, 2023
2022
FADGI's embARC Now Supports FFV1!, October 11, 2022
FADGI is a Finalist for the Digital Preservation Coalition 20th Anniversary Award, June 23, 2022
FADGI Publishes Revision to Influential Still Image Digitization Guidelines, June 9, 2022
New from FADGI: Mapping FFV1 into MXF, June 7, 2022
2021
A Look at FADGI with Librarian-in-Residence Hana Beckerle, November 12, 2021
FADGI’s embARC: Extending embedded metadata support and validation for DPX and MXF files, September 23, 2021
Reading the (Same) Signals: Using FADGI’s ADCTest for Quality Control in Outsourced Audio Digitization, September 16, 2021
That’s Our Cue! Updates for the FADGI Embedded Metadata Guidelines and BWF MetaEdit for the Cue Chunk in Broadcast Wave Files, September 9, 2021
2018
New Audio Digitization Performance Testing Guidelines and Software from FADGI, February 8, 2018
2017
New FADGI MXF AS-07 Specification and Sample Files Published, October 18, 2017
FADGI’s 10th Anniversary: Adapting to Meet the Community’s Needs, February 6, 2017
2016
New FADGI Guidelines for Embedded Metadata in DPX Files, December 16, 2016
FADGI MXF Video Specification Moves Up an Industry-organization Approval Ladder, July 11, 2016
2015
Digitizing Motion Picture Film: FADGI Report on Current Practices and Future Directions, December 9, 2015
Improving Technical Options for Audiovisual Collections Through the PREFORMA Project, September 23, 2015
All in the (Apple ProRes 422 Video Codec) Family, January 28, 2015
2014
New FADGI Report: Creating and Archiving Born Digital Video, December 4, 2014
Comparing Formats for Video Digitization, December 3, 2014
Audio for Eternity: Schüller and Häfner Look Back at 25 Years of Change, November 5, 2014
Convergence of Audiovisual Archivists in the ‘Fairest Cape': A Report of the 2014 IASA Conference, November 4, 2014
QCTools: Open Source Toolset to Bring Quality Control for Video within Reach, September 30, 2014
Emerging Collaborations for Accessing and Preserving Email, September 19, 2014
Comparing Formats for Still Image Digitizing: Part Two, May 15, 2014
Comparing Formats for Still Image Digitizing: Part One, May 14, 2014
It's Not Just Integrity: Fixity Data in Digital Sound and Moving Image Files, March 4, 2014
Let's Start at the Very Beginning: Guiding Principles for Creating Born Digital Video, February 10, 2014
AV Artifact Atlas: By the People, For the People, January 22, 2014
2013
Can I Get a Sample of That? Digital File Format Samples and Test Sets, December 12, 2013
On the Road with FADGI: Recent Conference Presentations Highlight Current Audio and Video Projects, November 21, 2013
Connecting Communities: FADGI Still Image Working Group’s Impact on the Library of Congress and Beyond, November 4, 2013
One Format Does Not Fit All: FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group’s Diverse Approaches to Format Guidance, October 31, 2013
2012
What IRENE Has to Say About Incremental Development and Digital Preservation, June 13, 2012
Audio Visual Working Group Update: Evolving Standardssss, May 9, 2012
Seeking Miraculous and Lossless Victories: Update on the FADGI Still Image Working Group, April 24, 2012
Report Puts the Focus on Independent Film Preservation, February 2, 2012
2011
Information or Artifact? Four-part blog on digitizing books and photos. October 17-20, 2011
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