This article’s subtitle is ‘Snapshots from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)’. The author presents an overview of decisions the initiative’s Audio-Visual Working Group has made concerning format choices and the handling of embedded metadata for audio and moving image files. It describes its choice of WAVE/BWF formats for audio and its approach to embedding metadata in these formats. It then discusses moving images and its current focus on the applicability of lossless JPEG2000 wrapped in MXF and related metadata issues. It concludes urging the publication of profiles and applications used in practice by archives in order to increase standardization and enable greater interoperability and long-term preservation. The article appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Information Standards Quarterly, volume 22, issue 2.
A good update on the guidelines being developed by one of the standard making organizations, the Library of Congress. Provides support to those archivists responsible for determining reformatting practices.