Digital Assets Discussion Group: Standards And Guidelines

This section is a place to point to the relevant discussions and resources centering on digital collections. This area will also become a clearinghouse of published guidelines developed by the Digital Assets Discussion Group for the UT digital community.

As a result of rapidly developing technology, standards for digital reformatting exist in limited numbers. There are, however, many guidelines on best practices for particular areas of digital reformatting. Primary among the works that have influenced Digital Collection Services has been Moving Theory Into Practice by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Reiger. An on-line tutorial based on this work is available through Cornell University. Guidelines for instigating and carrying out a digital reformatting project will be linked from this page and will cover:

Digital Imaging

Audio (being developed)

Web Video Guidelines by UT Austin Digital Video Producers

Further resources for standards, guidelines and best practices include:

NISO Releases Digital Still Image Metadata Draft Standard

Conservation Online - Digital Imaging Resources and References

Digital Libraries: a Selected Resource Guide
by Katharina Klemperer and Stephen Chapman

Digital Imaging of Photographs: A Practical Approach to Workflow Design and Project Management
by Lisa A. Macklin and Sarah L. Lockmiller.

Getting Mileage Out of Metadata: Applications for the Library
by Jean Hudgins, Grace Agnew, and Elizabeth Brown

What we're (LITA) reading on digital imaging