Format policies

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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

Media type File formats Preservation format(s) Access format(s) Normalization tool
Application files BAT, JS, JAR, PL, PY, SQL, VBS
Audio AC3, MP3, WAV, WMA WAVE (LPCM) MP3 FFmpeg
Portable Document Format PDF PDF/A PDF/A
Presentation files PPT ODF PDF Xena or OpenOffice Impress
Raster images BMP, GIF, JPG, JP2, PNG, TIFF, TGA Uncompressed TIFF JPEG ImageMagick
Raw camera files NEF DNG JPEG DigiKam DNG Converter
Spreadsheets XLS ODF Original format Xena or OpenOffice Calc
Text AXF, CSS, CSV, HTML, TXT, XML, XSL
Vector images AI, EPS, SVG SVG PDF
Video AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG, SWF, WMV MPEG-2 OGV FFmpeg
Word processing files DOC, WPD, RFT ODF PDF Xena or OpenOffice Writer