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This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials (such as textual content, maps, photographic prints and negatives). The expectation is that this work will enhance the exchange of research results and developments, encourage collaborative digitization practices and projects among federal agencies and institutions and provide the public with a product of uniform quality. It will also serve to set uniform quality and establish a common set of benchmarks for digitization service providers and manufacturers.
The work will focus on guidelines intended for works categorized as historical, cultural and/or archival. In addition to digital imaging and encoding, guidelines will be developed for the metadata that is embedded in digital image files, with a view to increasing the extent to which the files can be “self-describing.”
Primary considerations in the development of specific guidelines will be:
- Defined objectives for the digital object being produced
- Defined categories and characteristics of content to digitally represented
- Common image performance measures and methods of validating those measures to defined requirements
Expected Deliverables
- Definitions of digitization objectives
- Standard classifications of content types
- A foundational model describing imaging quality/performance characteristics and metrics
- Technical and process definitions
- Published draft and final digitization guidelines within the scope of this charter
- Published conceptual framework for the digitization process
- Development of a public web site to communicate the activities under this charter, including the posting of draft and final guidelines
A more complete description of objectives, scope and methodology can be found in the Still Image Digitization Working Group Charter.
Announcement
New Guidelines Available - Newly approved Digital Imaging Framework document available.
NIST On Board - We are pleased to announce that The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) is now participating in the Still Image Working Group.
Current Documents
TIFF Image Metadata - Approved
(Version 1.0; February 10, 2009)
Digital Imaging Framework - Approved
(April 2, 2009)
News & Events
GPO releases RFP for Mass Digitization
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) submits A Request for Proposal for Mass Digitization Opportunities.
August 2008
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Last Updated: 05/05/2009