Millard's Corner

http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/

The website of a “collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner” I think this is something worth watching. Hopefully some meaningful frameworks can be developed as a result. I’m reminded of the early Federal Geographic Data Committee and their efforts to establish a base metadata standard and accompanying dissemination software. That resulted in a fairly robust set of tools and standards that helped the field handle an explosion of geospatial data in the early 90′s

I like that one of the first working groups deals with Audio-Visual materials, an area where there is a mish-mash of often conflicting standards, best practices, etc. The kind of clarity we now have with digital image standards would be really helpful in this area. The proposed table of contents of the “Recorded Sound Digitization Overview and Guidelines” Looks promising.

I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on their RSS feed.

My only criticism: They *really* need a clever acronym.