To provide practitioners of image capture with practical guidance, the CIE Technical Committee on Archival Colour Imaging (TC8-09) and the Still Image Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative are working together to develop use cases and content type combinations, conducting a series of practical color imaging tests, and evaluating a range of encoding methods. They are concentrating on practical solutions using existing RGB and other tristimulus-based methods to encode the data in a manner that has a known accuracy, can create an accurate representation of the object when displayed, and provide encoding models we believe are sustainable. The work so far on this effort is presented in this paper.