Digital standards come first - Before agencies digitize their records, LOC group must develop standards
From Federal Computer Week:
There are no governmentwide standards for digitizing books, records, photos, maps and films or other analog materials. But federal agencies are working together to create standards for bringing millions of creative works into the digital world.Representatives from the Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Transportation Department and other organizations are establishing guidelines for a massive digitization project.
The Federal Digitization Standards Working Group of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board (NDSAB) is developing governmentwide standards or guidelines that will help agencies preserve documents and other works and share them.