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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
eCommons Support
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Below is a table of file formats. Those formats in the second column
exhibit the characteristics above and thus have a high probability of full
preservation. Those in the right-hand column have a low probability of
being fully preserved over time. Those formats in the middle are preferred
over their counterparts in the right-hand column, but assurance of their
long-term preservation is not as high as the left-hand column.
It is recommended that those depositing content in eCommons use
formats in the left-hand column if at all possible, and consider methods
for converting files with low probability to formats with higher probability.
For help in accessing where your digital content falls within this table, or
consulting about strategies for converting files from one format to
another, please contact the Library's Digital Consulting and Production
Services.
Media High probability
for full long-term
preservation
Medium
probability for
full long-term
preservation
Low
probability for
full long-term
preservation
Text Plain text
(encoding:
USASCII, UTF-8,
UTF-16 with BOM)
XML (includes
XSD/XSL/XHTML,
etc. with included
or accessible
schema)
PDF/A-1 (ISO
19005-1) (*.pdf)
Cascading
Style Sheets
(*.css)
DTD (*.dtd)
Plain text (ISO
8859-1
encoding
PDF (*.pdf)
(embedded
fonts)
Rich Text
Format 1.x
(*.rtf)
HTML (include
a DOCTYPE
declaration)
SGML
(*.sgml)
Open Office
(*.sxw/*.odt)
OOXML
(ISO/IEC DIS
29500) (*.docx)
PDF (*.pdf)
(encrypted)
Microsoft
Word (*.doc)
WordPerfect
(*.wpd)
DVI (*.dvi)
All other
text formats
not listed
here
Raster Image TIFF
(uncompressed)
JPEG2000
(lossless) (*.jp2)
PNG (*.png)
BMP (*.bmp)
JPEG/JFIF
(*.jpg)
JPEG2000
(lossy) (*.jp2)
MrSID
(*.sid)
TIFF (in
Planar
format)
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