Top of page

Category: Digital Content

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

It’s Not Just Integrity: Fixity Data in Digital Sound and Moving Image Files

Posted by: Kate Murray

This blog post is co-authored by Carl Fleischhauer, Project Manager, Digital Initiatives, Library of Congress. People who manage audio and video files over time, do create fixity data, aka hash values or checksums, to help monitor the condition of those files in storage and when moved from one system or media to another system or …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning: Guiding Principles for Creating Born Digital Video

Posted by: Kate Murray

The beginning is a very fine place to start indeed for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Born Digital Video subgroup of the Audio-Visual Working Group. As mentioned in a previous blog post, the FADGI Born Digital Video subgroup is taking a close look at the range of decisions to be made throughout the lifecycle …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

AV Artifact Atlas: By the People, For the People

Posted by: Kate Murray

In this interview, FADGI talks with Hannah Frost, Digital Library Services Manager at Stanford Libraries and Manager, Stanford Media Preservation Lab and Jenny Brice, Preservation Coordinator at Bay Area Video Coalition about the AV Artifact Atlas. One of my favorite aspects of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is its community-based ethos. We work collaboratively …

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

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

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 …