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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 Document Format		pdf	supported
Portable Network Graphics		.png	supported
Rich Text Format		.rtf	supported
Scalable Vector Graphics		.svg	supported
Tagged Image File Format		.tiff, .tif	supported