This section provides resources related to digitization.

Best Practices, Guidelines and Standards

• Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI): https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov 
• Digitization Best Practices, York University Libraries: https://www.library.yorku.ca/web/locations-and-spaces/library-spaces/dsc/digitization-best-practices/ 
• “Digitization Guidelines”, Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/services/government/information-disposition/records/multi-institution-disposition-authorizations/digitization-guidelines.html

How Tos and Toolkits 

• Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: A How To Guide, Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage Network (CHN):  https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digitization/guide-digitizing-intangible-cultural-heritage.html 
• Indigitization Toolkit, https://www.indigitization.ca/toolkit/ 

Open Workflows

• AMIA open-source workflows for A/V archiving: https://github.com/amiaopensource/open-workflows?tab=readme-ov-file 
• What We Do, Smithsonian Institution Archives: https://siarchives.si.edu/what-we-do/digital-curation/digitizing-collections 

Perspectives

• "Thoughtful Digitization: Why Archivists Look Beyond the Database" by Emma Prince in Backlog, April 8, 2026: https://www.backlog-archivists.com/blog/thoughtful-digitization-why-archivists-look-beyond-database

Planning

•  “Digitization Planning”, Sustainable Heritage Network: https://sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/digitization-planning 

Training

• Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization: https://dp.la/news/new-self-guided-curriculum-for-digitization/ 
• NEDCC Online Preservation Training: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/training-currentlist