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
Last Updated: 11/15/2012