Audio Visual Working Group

The goal for this working group is to identify, establish, and disseminate information about standards and practices for the digital reformatting of historical and cultural audio-visual materials by federal agencies. The effort will cover sound recordings, video recordings, motion picture film, and born-digital content. Topic areas include formatting, metadata, and methodology.  

Working Group Goals:

• Define the categories of content to be digitized
• Define objectives and specification for the digital masters by category
• Determine performance measures for digitization and develop methods for validation
• Recommend methods for digitization

Expected Deliverables:

• General digitization guidelines for sound recordings
• Documentation of one or more target formats for the reformatting of video
• Recommended strategies for certain categories of born-digital video
• Development of a public web site to communicate the Working Group's activities 

Current Guidelines

• MXF Application Specification:
  Draft under development
• Broadcast WAVE metadata
  Approved

Learn about the Still Image Working Group

This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials.

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