Whitepaper

FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group Guidelines: Audio Digitization System Performance

By: AVP
May 6, 2011

The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative is a governmental interagency activity that draws participants from the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Libraries of Medicine and Agriculture, Voice of America, and several other interested agencies.

The initiative is divided into two parts: the Still Image Working Group and the Audio-Visual Working GroupChris Lacinak has drafted the initial report on the Audio-Visual Working Group’s efforts to evaluate audio digitization systems and develop performance metrics in order to set guidelines and evaluative measurements for conducting and monitoring digitization activities.