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Wednesday, 20th May 2009

Federal Guidelines: Agencies Collaborate on Digitization

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Saving the nation’s cultural heritage is an increasingly important matter for government agencies that hold large amounts of material documenting the national record. While saving traditional printed archival materials continues to be important, the exponential growth of digitization projects has created a new set of challenges related to producing and preserving materials in digital format over the long term.

Individual government agencies are digitizing different content, yet they share many of the same technical issues and concerns. So the sharing of information and tools is an idea whose time has come. To that end, the Library of Congress is participating in a new government collaboration, the results of which can be followed on the newly released “Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative” website.

Twelve agencies have come together to develop a common set of digitization practices and guidelines and two working groups have been formed. A still-image working group will establish appropriate guidelines for the scanning of text, maps, photographic prints and negatives. An audiovisual working group will set standards for digitizing audiovisual materials—sound recordings, videos and film. They will post their recommendations on two websites: www.digitizationguidelines.gov/stillimages/ and www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/.

Direct to Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Website

Source: Library of Congress Information Bulletin


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