Tests: Generate access copies

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Archivematica normalizes certain ingested file formats into preservation-friendly formats.

General

• Generation of access copies is triggered automatically when the user approves "Appraise SIP" in the dashboard.
• The original files are not deleted.

Audio files

• .ac3 files are converted to mp3
• .aif/.aiff files are converted to mp3
• .mp3 files are converted to mp3
• .wav files are converted to mp3
• .wma files are converted to mp3

Office documents

• .doc files are converted to pdf
• .docx files are converted to pdf
• .ppt files are converted to pdf
• .pptx files are converted to pdf
• .rtf files are converted to pdf
• .xls files are left in their original format
• .xlsx files are left in their original format
• .wpd files are normalized to ODT

Portable Document files

.pdf files are converted to pdf/a (note that the file extension remains .pdf)

Plain text

.txt files are left in their original format

Raster images

• .bmp files are converted to JPEG
• .gif files are converted to JPEG
• .jpg files are left in their original format
• .jp2 files are converted to JPEG
• .png files are converted to JPEG
• .psd files are converted to JPEG
• .tif files are converted to JPEG
• .tga files are converted to JPEG

Vector images

• .ai files are converted to SVG 1.1 (not yet implemented)
  • multi-page .ai files are converted to multiple single page SVG 1.1 files
• .eps files are converted to SVG 1.1
• .svg files are converted to SVG 1.1
  • .svg files that tagged as SVG 1.0 but which are entirely conformant to the SVG 1.1 standard are not normalized to SVG 1.1

Video files

• .avi files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .flv files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .mov files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .mpg files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .m2v files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .mp4 files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .swf files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF
• .wmv files: video streams are normalized to MPEG-2; audio streams are normalized to uncompressed WAVE; wrapper is normalized to MXF