Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage materials - FADGI is a collaborative effort started in 2007 by federal agencies to articulate common sustainable practices and guidelines for digitized and born digital historical, archival and cultural content. 

Digital Library Federation's Digitization Cost Calculator - Input parameters and the calculator will produce an estimate of time and costs for each process of your digitization project.

Digital Public Library of America Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization

• Use underscores, hyphens or capital letters to differentiate between words in the file. Do not use spaces or special characters > < * ? = \ / |  
• Keep file names concise and use meaningful abbreviations
• Order elements from general to specific and consider how the files may sort in a directory.
• Record dates YYYYMMDD

The Randall Library Digitization Unit primarily creates TIFFs as the original master file and generates access files, JPEG and PDF. We also work with audio, video, and many other file formats.