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Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
Added 20 October 2008
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
The initiative represents a collaborative effort to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. Under this initiative, two Working Groups have been established.
The Still Image Working Group will focus its efforts on books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. Its members include the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Gallery of Art, the National Library of Medicine, the National Technical Information Service, the National Transportation Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
The Audio-Visual Working Group will address standards and practices for sound, video, and motion picture film. Its members include the Defense Visual Information Directorate of the Department of Defense, the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Library of Medicine, the Smithsonian Institution, the Government Printing Office and the Voice of America.
Categories:
- Digitisation
Fourth Planets newsletter
Added 6 June 2008
http://www.planets-p...NewsletterIssue4.pdf
The newsletter describes the project's progress, recent and future dissemination activities, Planets publications and presentations.
This time PLATO (Planets preservation planning tool) and the XCEL and XCDL languages, which are key components in the characterisation work done in the project, get a special mentioning in the newsletter.
Included in the newsletter are also brief reports from the recent preservation planning tutorial held in Vienna and the project's presence at CeBIT 2008.
Categories:
- Best practice for digital preservation
