FADGI is an important project to anyone trying to find, and follow, best practices and standards for anything to do with ‘going digital’.
The US Library of Congress has been tasked with gaining agreement on digitisation practices across all US government institutions. As such, they are a major test case for whether anybody can implement common standards and practices.
The FADGI website offers a range of guideline documents. It is not a ‘Beginner’s Guide to Going Digital’ but for professionals who are facing technical choices, the FADGI guidelines are signposts to ’the beaten path’: best practice and its associated standards.