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Significant characteristics of word processing files
Preservation Format
Open Document Format; PDF/A
Access Format
Normalization tool
Xena or OpenOffice Writer
Comments
- Normalization to Portable Document Format/Archival (PDF/A) may be an acceptable preservation strategy in addition to normalization to ODF using Xena.
- For more information on the PDF/A format see Library of Congress Sustainability of Digital Formats: PDF/A-1.
- A list of tools used to convert files to PDF format is available at Codswallop technology + productivity blog.
- PDF/A normalization of MS Word files is somewhat problematic because best results are achieved from within the native application - i.e. MS Office running in MS Windows. Archivematica does not support either Windows or MS Office since these are proprietary software packages.
- For ODF conversion, Xena may be preferable since it also normalizes embedded objects such as image files and spreadsheets.