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Preservation and Format Support

Media PREFERRED: High probability for full Medium probability for Low probability for full long- long-term preservation full long-term term preservation preservation

Text • Plain text (encoding: USASCII, UTF-8, • Cascading Style Sheets • PDF (*.) (encrypted) UTF-16 with BOM) (*.css) • (*.doc) • XML (includes XSD/XSL/XHTML, etc.; • DTD (*.dtd) • WordPerfect (*.wpd) with included or accessible schema) • PDF (*.pdf) (embedded • DVI (*.dvi) • PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1) (*.pdf) ) • All other text formats not • Rich Text Format 1.x listed here (*.rtf) • HTML (include a DOCTYPE declaration) • SGML (*.sgml) • Open Office (*.sxw/*.odt) • OOXML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) (*.docx)

Raster Image • TIFF (uncompressed) • BMP (*.bmp) • PhotoShop (*.psd) • JPEG2000 (lossless) (*.jp2) • JPEG/JFIF (*.jpg) • RAW • PNG (*.png) • JPEG2000 (lossy) (*.jp2) • All other raster image formats • TIFF (compressed) not listed here • GIF (*.)

Vector • SVG (no Java script binding) (*.svg) • Computer Graphic • Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) Metafile (CGM, WebCGM) • Flash (*.) (*.cgm) • All other vector image formats not listed here

Audio • AIFF (PCM) (*.aif, *.aiff) • Standard MIDI (*.mid, • RealNetworks 'Real Audio' • WAV (PCM) (*.) *.midi) (*.ra, *.rm, *.ram) • Free Lossless Audio • (*.) (*.wma) • Advance Audio Coding • Protected AAC (*.m4p) (*.mp4, *.m4a, *.aac) • All other audio formats not • MP3 (MPEG-1/2, Layer 3) listed here (*.)

Video • Motion JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444- • MPEG-1, MPEG-2 • AVI (others) (*.avi) 4)(*.mj2) (*.mpg, *.mpeg, wrapped • QuickTime Movie (others) • AVI (uncompressed, motion JPEG) in AVI, MOV) (*.mov) (*.avi) • MPEG-4 (H.263, H.264) • RealNetworks 'Real ' • QuickTime Movie (uncompressed, (*.mp4, wrapped in AVI, (*.rv) motion JPEG) (*.mov) MOV) • (*.wmv) • All other video formats not listed here

Spreadsheet/ • Comma Separated Values (*.csv) • DBF (*.dbf) • Excel (*.xls) Database • Delimited Text (*.txt) • OpenOffice (*.sxc/*.ods) • All other spreadsheet/ • SQL DDL • OOXML (ISO/IEC DIS database formats not listed here 29500) (*.xlsx)

Digital Commons/Policy/Lux Policy 1 Computer • Computer program source code, • Compiled / Executable files Programs uncompiled (*., *.c++, *.java, *.js, (EXE, *.class, COM, DLL, BIN, *.jsp, *.php, *.pl, etc.) DRV, OVL, SYS, PIF)

Presentations • OpenOffice (*.sxi/*.odp) • PowerPoint (*.ppt) • OOXML (ISO/IEC DIS • All other presentation formats 29500) (*.pptx) not listed here

For more details on sustainability, see Sustainability of Digital Formats (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/descriptions.shtml) from the Library of Congress.

Modified from the University of Connecticut’s Digital Commons Format Support Policy (http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/formats.html) and Cornell University’s eCommons Recommended File Formats (http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/support.html#format)

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