Word processing files
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Significant characteristics of word processing files
Preservation Format
Open Document Format
Access Format
PDF/A
Normalization tool
Unoconv and OpenOffice Writer
Comments
- Unoconv is used as a command-line tool to open OpenOffice, which performs conversions tp both ODF and PDF/A
- The files are converted to ODT, which is the OpenOffice extension for Open Document Format
- OOXML files are left in their original format
- Normalization to Portable Document Format/Archival (PDF/A) may be an acceptable preservation strategy in addition to normalization to ODF using unoconv and OpenOffice.
- For more information on the PDF/A format see Library of Congress Sustainability of Digital Formats: PDF/A-1.
- PDF/A normalization of MS Word files is somewhat problematic because best results are achieved from within the native application - i.e. MS Office running in MS Windows. Archivematica does not support either Windows or MS Office since these are proprietary software packages.