Category: Digital Content

Refined by: (Author) Kate Murray; (Year) 2013

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Can I Get a Sample of That? Digital File Format Samples and Test Sets

December 12, 2013

If you’ve ever been to a warehouse store on a weekend afternoon, you’ve experienced the power of the sample. In the retail world, samples are an important tool to influence potential new customers who don’t want to invest in an unknown entity. I certainly didn’t start the day with lobster dip on my shopping list …

Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Tools and Infrastructure

One Format Does Not Fit All: FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group’s Diverse Approaches to Format Guidance

October 31, 2013

Posted by: Kate Murray

This is the first in a two-part update on the recent activities of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative. This article describes the work of the Audio-Visual Working Group. The second article, to be published on November 4th 2013, describes the work of the Still Image Working Group. I wish I had a quick and …

Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Partners and Collaboration

Refined by: (Author) Kate Murray; (Year) 2013