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"Guidelines: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials Still Image Working Group The Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials that can be reproduced by still images represents shared best practices followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).  This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials (such as textual content, maps, and photographic prints and negatives) found in cultural heritage institutions. This document draws substantially on the National Archives and Records Administration's Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Records for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images (June 2004), but has been revised and updated in several areas to reflect the current recommendations of the working group and to reflect changes that have occurred in the digitization field since 2004. These Guidelines were prepared by members of the working group during the winter of 2009-2010. Readers will find updated sections covering equipment and image performance metrics, quality management, and metadata in this revision. "

Embedded metadata is a key component of managing digital files, providing information on correct presentation, source of the file, rights, and other information which supports findability, access, authentication, preservation, and more. This paper discusses the concept and uses of embedded metadata in general, and then looks more specifically at its use in WAVE audio files, focusing on the efforts of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) to develop recommendations on embedding metadata in audio files created by government agencies. This project resulted in the development of BWF MetaEdit, a tool which allows users to view, edit, and create embedded metadata in WAVE files.