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		<title>Sromkey: Created page with &quot;Main Page &gt; Projects &gt; Vancouver Digital Archives &gt; Requirements Analysis &gt; File formats  =Private records= These are records we expect to transfer from record...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/Main_Page&quot; title=&quot;Main Page&quot;&gt;Main Page&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/Projects&quot; title=&quot;Projects&quot;&gt;Projects&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/Vancouver_Digital_Archives&quot; title=&quot;Vancouver Digital Archives&quot;&gt;Vancouver Digital Archives&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/Requirements_Analysis&quot; title=&quot;Requirements Analysis&quot;&gt;Requirements Analysis&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt; File formats  =Private records= These are records we expect to transfer from record...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Main Page]] &amp;gt; [[Projects]] &amp;gt; [[Vancouver Digital Archives]] &amp;gt; [[Requirements Analysis]] &amp;gt; File formats&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=Private records=&lt;br /&gt;
These are records we expect to transfer from recordkeeping systems in our first large donation of digital materials.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Mac Server==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;10&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; width=90%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|- style=&amp;quot;background-color:#cccccc;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''System/software'''&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''Formats'''&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Adobe Premiere Pro&lt;br /&gt;
|Video formats:&lt;br /&gt;
*Advanced Authoring Format (.aaf)&lt;br /&gt;
*Macromedia Flash Video (.afv)&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audio/Video_Interleaved_Format Microsoft AVI] and DV AVI (.avi)&lt;br /&gt;
*Animated Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)&lt;br /&gt;
*MPEG-1, MPEG-1-VCD (.mpg, .m2v)&lt;br /&gt;
*MPEG-2, MPEG-2-DVD, (.mpg, .m2v)&lt;br /&gt;
*RealMedia (.rmvb)&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quicktime QuickTime (video) (.mov)]&lt;br /&gt;
*Windows Media (.wmv)&lt;br /&gt;
Audio formats:&lt;br /&gt;
*Microsoft AVI and DV AVI (.avi)&lt;br /&gt;
*MPG ([http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=MPEG-1_Audio,_Layer_3 MP3])&lt;br /&gt;
*PCM&lt;br /&gt;
*Dolby(c) Digital/AC3&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Media_Audio WMA]&lt;br /&gt;
*RealMedia&lt;br /&gt;
*QuickTime&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Waveform_Audio Windows Audio Waveform (.wav)]&lt;br /&gt;
Still image formats:&lt;br /&gt;
*Targa (.tgf/tga)&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tagged_Image_File_Format Tagged Image File Format (.tiff)]&lt;br /&gt;
*Windows Bitmap (.bmp)&lt;br /&gt;
Sequence formats:&lt;br /&gt;
*Graphics Interchange Format sequence&lt;br /&gt;
*Targa sequence&lt;br /&gt;
*Tagged Image File Format sequence&lt;br /&gt;
*Windows Bitmap sequence&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Adobe Illustrator&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*Adobe Illustrator (.ai)&lt;br /&gt;
*Encapsulated Postscript File Format (.eps)&lt;br /&gt;
*JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|iPhoto Library&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*RAW camera files (see [http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nikon_Electronic_Format Nikon Electronic Format])&lt;br /&gt;
*JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg)&lt;br /&gt;
*[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tagged_Image_File_Format Tagged Image File Format (.tiff)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Windows SharePoint Server==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;10&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; width=90%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|- style=&amp;quot;background-color:#cccccc;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''System/software'''&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''Formats'''&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Microsoft Office&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Word&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Excel&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Access&lt;br /&gt;
*MS PowerPoint&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Geographic Information System(s)&lt;br /&gt;
|Graphic export formats only: [http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Portable_Document_Format Portable Document Format (.pdf)] and [http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Portable_Network_Graphics Portable Network Graphics (.png)]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Sharepoint lists&lt;br /&gt;
|MS Excel (.xls) or XML&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Issue Tracker (daily issue summaries from organizational functions)&lt;br /&gt;
|Export format(s)? Likely a Sharepoint list (.xls)&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Sharepoint sites&lt;br /&gt;
|XML?&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==JetStor device for A/V Stores==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;10&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; width=90%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|- style=&amp;quot;background-color:#cccccc;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''System/software'''&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:50%&amp;quot;|'''Formats'''&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Quicktime Pro&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quicktime QuickTime (.mov)]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Final Cut Pro&lt;br /&gt;
|[http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quicktime QuickTime (.mov)]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|Media B-rolls&lt;br /&gt;
|XML readable by Adobe Premiere and Avid&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Windows Server==&lt;br /&gt;
Same as Mac Server and Sharepoint Server (mainly working copies of documents, except for A/V project management)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Website==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;10&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; width=90%&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|- style=&amp;quot;background-color:#cccccc;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:33%&amp;quot;|'''Format'''&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:33%&amp;quot;|'''Also known as'''&lt;br /&gt;
!style=&amp;quot;width:33%&amp;quot;|'''File extension(s)'''&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Adobe_Extensible_Metadata_Platform Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform]] &lt;br /&gt;
|Adobe XMP&lt;br /&gt;
|.xmp&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_Stream_Redirector_file Advanced Stream Redirector file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Microsoft ASX Playlist&lt;br /&gt;
|.asx&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Batch_file Batch file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*MS-DOS batch file&lt;br /&gt;
*MS-Windows batch file&lt;br /&gt;
|.bat&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_Windows_Bitmap_Image_file Microsoft Windows Bitmap Image file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.bmp&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cascading_Stylesheet Cascading Stylesheet]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.css&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Comma_Separated_Values_file Comma Separated Values file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.csv&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Command_Source_Code Command Source Code]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.cmd&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Document_type_definition Document type definition]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.dtd&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Encapsulated_PostScript Encapsulated PostScript]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.eps&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Extensible_Markup_Language Extensible Markup Language]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.xml&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Extensible_Stylesheet_Language Extensible Stylesheet Language]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.xsl&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=GNU_zip_file GNU zip file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|GZIP file&lt;br /&gt;
|.gz&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Graphics_Interchange_Format Graphics Interchange Format]]&lt;br /&gt;
|GIF&lt;br /&gt;
|.gif&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hypertext_Markup_Language Hypertext Markup Language ]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*.html&lt;br /&gt;
*.htm&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_Icon_file Microsoft Icon file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.ico&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=JavaScript_file JavaScript file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*JavaScript programming files&lt;br /&gt;
*JScript files&lt;br /&gt;
|.js&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Java_archive_file Java archive file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.jar&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Joint_Photographic_Experts_Group Joint Photographic Experts Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
|JPEG&lt;br /&gt;
|.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_Excel_Workbook Microsoft Excel Workbook]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*Microsoft Excel&lt;br /&gt;
*Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF)&lt;br /&gt;
|.xls&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_Office_Word Microsoft Office Word]]&lt;br /&gt;
|MS-WORD&lt;br /&gt;
|.doc&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Moving_Picture_Experts_Group_file Moving Picture Experts Group file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|MPEG&lt;br /&gt;
|.mpg&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Perl_script Perl script]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.pl&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Portable_Document_Format Portable Document Format]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.pdf&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Portable_Network_Graphics Portable Network Graphics]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.png&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python_script_file Python script file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.py&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quicktime_(video) Quicktime (video)]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*MOV&lt;br /&gt;
*QT&lt;br /&gt;
|.mov&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Real_Media_Metafile Real Media Metafile]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.ram&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Rich_Text_Format Rich Text Format]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.rtf&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Shockwave_Flash_file Shockwave Flash file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.swf&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=SQL_code SQL code]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.sql&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tagged_Image_File_Format Tagged Image File Format]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.tiff, .tif&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Media_Player_file Windows Media Player file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
|.wmv&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Visual_Basic_Scripting_file Visual Basic Scripting file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&lt;br /&gt;
*C Source Code&lt;br /&gt;
*Microsoft Active Scripting language&lt;br /&gt;
*VBScript&lt;br /&gt;
|.vbs&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=ZIP_file ZIP file]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Zip archive file&lt;br /&gt;
|.zip&lt;br /&gt;
|-}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Outlying systems==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All outlying systems data will be exported to Sharepoint lists or MS Excel spreadsheets.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
=Public Records from TRIM=&lt;br /&gt;
==Formats==&lt;br /&gt;
*Audio Video Interleave (AVI)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bitmap (BMP)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Word (DOC)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Word Office Open XML with Macros Enabled(DOCM)&lt;br /&gt;
*Microsoft Open Office XML (DOCX)&lt;br /&gt;
*Plain text graph descriptions(DOT)&lt;br /&gt;
*Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)&lt;br /&gt;
*Hypertext Markup Language(HTM and HTML)&lt;br /&gt;
*Adobe InDesign Document (INDD)&lt;br /&gt;
*JPEG, Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG) &lt;br /&gt;
*Javascript Source Code (JS)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Access Database (MDB)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Project File (MPP)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Outlook (MSG) &lt;br /&gt;
*Portable Document Format (PDF)&lt;br /&gt;
*Portable Network Graphics (PNG)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS PowerPoint (PPT)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS PowerPoint Office Open XML (PPTX) &lt;br /&gt;
*Report (RPT)&lt;br /&gt;
*Rich Text (RTF)&lt;br /&gt;
*Tagged Image File Format (TIFF or TIF)&lt;br /&gt;
*TRIM Reference File (TR5)&lt;br /&gt;
*Text(TXT) &lt;br /&gt;
*Virtual Mailbox (VMBX - what TRIM converts emails to)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Visio Drawing (VSD) &lt;br /&gt;
*Windows Media Video (WMV)&lt;br /&gt;
*Word Perfect Document (WPD) &lt;br /&gt;
*MS Windows Media Redirector (WVX)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Excel (XLS) &lt;br /&gt;
*MS Excel Office Open XML (XLSX)&lt;br /&gt;
*MS Excel Template (XLT) &lt;br /&gt;
*Data Compression file (ZIP)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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