En la siguiente tabla (1) podemos ver formatos de archivos recomendados según nivel de preservación :
Content type |
High |
Medium |
Low |
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) • Microsoft Word 2007 or newer (*.docx) |
• PDF (*.pdf) (encrypted) • Microsoft Word 2003 or older (*.doc) • WordPerfect (*.wpd) • DVI (*.dvi) • All other text formats not listed |
Raster image |
• TIFF (uncompressed) • JPEG2000 (lossless) (*.jp2) • PNG (*.png) |
• BMP (*.bmp) • JPEG/JFIF (*.jpg) • JPEG2000 (lossy) (*.jp2) • TIFF (compressed) • GIF (*.gif) • Digital Negative DNG (*.dng) |
• MrSID (*.sid) • TIFF (in Planar format) • FlashPix (*.fpx) • PhotoShop (*.psd) • RAW • JPEG 2000 Part 2 (*.jpf, *.jpx) • All other raster image formats not listed |
Vector graphics |
• SVG (no Java script binding) (*.svg) |
• Computer Graphic Metafile (CGM, WebCGM) (*.cgm) |
• Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) • Macromedia Flash (*.swf) • All other vector image formats not listed |
Audio |
• AIFF (96kHz 16bit PCM) (*.aif, *.aiff) • WAV (96kHz 24bit PCM) (*.wav) |
• SUN Audio (uncompressed) (*.au) • Standard MIDI (*.mid, *.midi) • Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg) • Free Lossless Audio Codec (*.flac) • Advance Audio Coding (*.mp4, *.m4a, *.aac) • MP3 (MPEG-1/2, Layer 3) (*.mp3) |
• AIFC (compressed) (*.aifc) • NeXT SND (*.snd) • RealNetworks 'Real Audio' (*.ra, *.rm, *.ram) • Windows Media Audio (*.wma) • Protected AAC (*.m4p) • WAV (compressed) (*.wav) • All other audio formats not listed |
Video |
• Motion JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444-4)??*.mj2) • AVI (uncompressed/native, motion JPEG) (*.avi) • QuickTime Movie (uncompressed/native, motion JPEG) (*.mov) |
• Ogg Theora (*.ogg) • MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (*.mpg, *.mpeg, wrapped in AVI, MOV) • MPEG-4 (H.263, H.264) (*.mp4, wrapped in AVI, MOV) |
• AVI (others) (*.avi) • QuickTime Movie (others) (*.mov) • RealNetworks 'Real Video' (*.rv) • Windows Media Video (*.wmv) • All other video formats not listed |
Spreadsheet / database |
• Character delimited text (ASCII or Unicode preferred): • Comma Separated Values (*.csv) • Delimited Text (*.txt) • SQL Data Definition Language |
• OOXML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) (*.xlsx) • Excel 2007 or newer (*.xlsx) • OpenOffice (*.sxc/*.ods) • DBF (*.dbf) |
• Excel 2003 or older (*.xls) • All other spreadsheet/ database formats not listed |
Virtual reality |
• X3D (*.x3d) |
• VRML (*.wrl, *.vrml) • U3D (Universal 3D file format) |
• All other virtual reality formats not listed |
Computer programs |
• Uncompiled computer program source code (*.c, *.cpp, *.java, *.js, *.jsp, *.php, *.pl, *.py, etc.) |
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• Compiled / Executable files (EXE, *.class, COM, DLL, BIN, DRV, OVL, SYS, PIF) |
Presentation |
|
• OpenOffice (*.sxi/*.odp) • OOXML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) (*.pptx) • PowerPoint 2007 or newer (*.pptx) |
• PowerPoint 2003 or older (*.ppt) • All other presentation formats not listed |
1. Cornell University Library. eCommons: Cornell’s Digital Repository. Recommended File Formats [Internet]. 2020 [cited 2020 Apr 15]. Available from: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/formats