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23 24</head> 25<body> 26<a id="skip" href="#page_content" title="skip to content"> </a> <a id="rightnav" href="#right_nav" title="skip to right nav links"> </a> 27<div id="branding"> 28 <h2>Federal Agencies<br /> 29 <span>Digital Guidelines Initiative</span></h2> 30</div> 31<div id="container"> 32 33<div id="topnav"> 34 <ul id="menu"> 35 <li id="search"> 36 <p><a href="/glossary.php?alpha=A">Glossary</a> | <a href="/participants/">Participants</a> | <a href="/contact/">Contact Us</a></p> 37 <form class="search-pages" action="//www.loc.gov/search/" accept-charset="utf-8" id="site_search" name="seek1" method="get"> 38 <input type="hidden" name="in" value="PartOf:Federal Agency Digitization Guidelines" /> 39 <input id="searchtext" name="q" type="text" placeholder="Search this site" title="Search this site" onfocus="this.value=''" style="width:164px;" class="srtext" /><input type="image" alt="GO" src="/images/btn_go.png" class="srtext-btn" id="search_button" name="search_button" /> 40 41 </form> 42 43 </li> 44 <li id="logo"></li> 45 <li id="comments"> 46 <p><a href="/contact/">Submit comments</a> to FADGI</p> 47 <p> </p> 48 <p> </p> 49 </li> 50 </ul> 51</div> 52 53 54 <div id="sitenav"> 55 <ul> 56 <li id="home"><a href="/">Home</a></li> 57 <li id="about"><a class="on" href="/about/">About</a></li> 58 <li id="guidelines"><a href="/guidelines/">Guidelines</a></li> 59 <li id="resources"><a href="/resources/">Resources</a></li> 60 <li id="review"><a href="/review/">Review Process</a></li> 61 <li id="news"><a href="/news/">News & Events</a></li> 62 </ul> 63 </div> 64 65 <div id="crumbnav"> 66 <p><a href="/">Home</a> > About</p><div class="locshare-this" id='instance_id1001'></div> 67 </div> 68 <div id="content"><a name="top" id="top"></a> 69 <h1>About</h1> 70 <div id="main"><span style="width: 100%;"><a name="page_content"></a></span> 71 72 <p>This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to articulate a common sustainable set of technical guidelines, methods, and practices for digitized and born digital historical, archival and cultural content. </p> 73 <p>Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate working groups were formed with the possibility that more tightly focused groups might be necessary as the work progressed. The <a href="../still-image/"> Still Image Working Group</a> concentrates its efforts on image content such as books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The <a href="../audio-visual/"> Audio-Visual Working Group</a> focuses its work on sound, video, and motion picture film. </p> 74 <p>While the Working Groups have focused on digitized content, recent projects have broadened the scope to include selected aspects of born digital content. Long known as FADGI, the acronym’s meaning was updated in 2017 from <em>Federal Agencies <strong>Digitization</strong> Guidelines Initiative</em> to the <em>Federal Agencies <strong>Digital </strong>Guidelines Initiative</em> to reflect this growing area of work.</p> 75<p>The participating agencies share the belief that common guidelines will enhance the exchange of research results and developments, encourage collaborative practices and projects for digital material among federal agencies and institutions and provide the public with a product of uniform quality. They will also serve to set common benchmarks for service providers and manufacturers. </p> 76<p>To learn more about the impact of FADGI work within the Library of Congress and elsewhere, see the frequently updated <a href=FADGI-Impacts.html>summary chart</a>.</p> 77 <p>The agencies involved in this initiative also share a common philosophical approach to developing technical guidelines; namely that:</p> 78 <ul> 79 <li>guidelines should be based on clearly articulated objectives;</li> 80 <li>methodologies and requirements should be based on recognized approved standards or empirical data to the extent possible;</li> 81 <li>the efforts undertaken through this federal initiative be conducted in a transparent manner, sharing not only conclusions but the approach and reasoning;</li> 82 <li>the participating members actively seek input from the public, governmental and academic institutions, as well as corporate entities and trade organizations.</li> 83 </ul> 84 85 <p>Federal agency participation is voluntary and non-binding. All United States federal agencies and institutions involved in the creation or collection of digitized or born digital content of a cultural, historical, or archival nature are welcome to participate. Participants are invited to provide input, share information and resources (when possible), and provide their opinions on priorities, methodology of the initiative, and approval or disapproval of draft resources. Individuals who opt to participate in FADGI initiatives are expected to respond to external recommendations or queries.</p> 86 <p>Employees at eligible agencies who are interested in receiving information about FADGI meetings and initiatives are encouraged to subscribe to the FADGI Audio-Visual and/or Still Image Working Group listservs (email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4e4a2a1a0a0ada3adb0adbea5b0a
86dabaa84a8aba7eaa3abb2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="22444746464b454b564b5843564b4d4c624e4d410c454d54">[email protected]</span></a> to be added). Listserv subscribers are not obligated to attend meetings, participate in projects, or comment on their agencyâs policies and practices. FADGI does not maintain an official membership list, but does record meeting attendance, sub-committee/project team lists, and other voluntary participation information.</p> 87 <p>Adherence by the participating agencies to the guidelines developed under this initiative is not required, nor is it expected to be practical under all circumstances. It is expected that participating agencies make a good faith effort to translate the guidelines into standard operating procedures and performance criteria for contracted services or purchases.</p> 88 <p>FADGI does not review, certify, or endorse commercial products. This includes all software and hardware used to create and manage digital content. If a commercial entity uses the term âFADGIâ, the FADGI logo, or references a FADGI resource or document, it has not be authorized by FADGI to do so. FADGI does not maintain lists or other information about commercial products that claim FADGI conformance. All references to commercial products in FADGI documents are examples, and not recommendations or mandates to use those products.</p> 89 </div> 90 <div id="right_nav"><span style="width: 100%;"><a name="right_nav"></a></span> 91 <h3 class="first">Working Groups</h3> 92 93 <p><a class="bold" href="/still-image/">Still Image Working Group</a><br /> 94 This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials.</p> 95 96 <p><a class="bold" href="/audio-visual/">Audio-Visual Working Group</a><br /> 97 This group works collaboratively on common and sustainable technical guidelines, methods, and practices for digitized and born digital sound recordings and moving images.</p> 98 99 </div> 100 <p class="last_updated">Last Updated: 03/11/2026</p> 101 <!-- closing content div tag --> 102 </div> 103 <div id="footer"> 104 <p><a href="/glossary.php?alpha=A">Glossary</a> | <a href="/participants/">Participants</a> | <a href="/contact/">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/legal.html">Legal</a></p> 105 <!-- close footer --> 106 </div> 107 <!-- close container --> 108</div>
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