I've been reading and digesting the recently released Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative [1] website and the sustainable formats [2] page, so I can discuss it (if there is time) during my presentation at next week's Depository Library Conference [3].

A dozen federal agencies launched an initiative to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. Two working groups have been established: the Still Image [4] (books, photographs, maps, etc.) and the Audio-Visual [5] Working Group. They have two draft documents currently up for review and comment: Tiff Image Metadata [6] and Digital Imaging Framework [7]. Comments are due on November 15.

I'm also loving their glossary of terms [8], which "has been generated to serve the participating agencies as a standardized vocabulary for their deliberations and guidelines" and it is "a work in progress" so suggestions [9] are welcome.