Selected Blog Posts

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• 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
• 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
• New Audio Digitization Performance Testing Guidelines and Software from FADGI, February 8, 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Information or Artifact? Four-part blog on digitizing books and photos. October 17-20, 2011

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.