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Revision as of 17:02, 11 December 2009

Main Page > Documentation > Format-specific preservation issues


Normalization is one preservation strategy that can be implemented using Archivematica.

Archivematica uses the National Archives of Australia's Xena (XML Electronic Normalising for Archives) software to convert certain file formats to xml-based formats on ingest.

A full list of the file types Xena can normalize is available at http://xena.sourceforge.net/help.php?page=normformats.html.

However, some formats cannot be normalized by Xena. Also, it may be desirable to adopt format-specific preservation plans for certain types of files based on institutional requirements and preferences.

Follow the links below for further discussion of these issues for each file format.


Format Also known as File extension(s) Xena support
Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform
  • Adobe XMP
.xmp not supported
Adobe Illustrator drawing Adobe AI .ai not supported
Microsoft Excel Workbook
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF)
.xls supported
Microsoft Office Word MS-WORD .doc supported
Nikon Electronic Format
  • Nikon Image Format
  • Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
.nef not supported
Portable Network Graphics .png supported
Rich Text Format .rtf supported
Scalable Vector Graphics .svg supported
Tagged Image File Format .tiff, .tif supported