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==Media type preservation plans==
 
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An asterisk (*) denotes plans that will be implemented in the next release of Archivematica.
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Revision as of 10:43, 8 September 2010

Main Page > Documentation > Media type preservation plans


Migration and emulation

Archivematica maintains the original format of all ingested files to support migration and emulation preservation strategies.

Normalization

Archivematica's primary preservation strategy is to normalize files to preservation and access formats upon ingest. The choice of access formats is based on the ubiquity of viewers for the file format. Archivematica's preservation formats are all open standards. Additionally, the choice of preservation format is based on community best practices, availability of open-source normalization tools, and an analysis of the significant characteristics for each media type.

Media type preservation plans

An asterisk (*) denotes plans that will be implemented in the next release of Archivematica. Those without an asterisk are already implemented.

Media type File formats Preservation format(s) Access format(s) Normalization tool
Audio AC3, AIFF, MP3, WAV, WMA WAVE (LPCM) MP3 FFmpeg
Portable Document Format PDF* PDF/A PDF/A Ghostscript
Presentation files PPT ODF PDF Unoconv/OpenOffice
Raster images BMP, GIF, JPG, JP2, PNG, PSD*, TIFF, TGA Uncompressed TIFF JPEG ImageMagick
Raw camera files NEF* DNG JPEG DigiKam DNG Converter
Spreadsheets XLS ODF Original format Unoconv/OpenOffice
Plain text TXT Original format Original format None
Vector images AI*, EPS*, SVG* SVG PDF Inkscape
Video AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, SWF, WMV MPEG-2 MPG FFmpeg
Word processing files DOC, WPD, RTF ODF PDF Unoconv/OpenOffice