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Selección de formatos de archivos para la preservación: Inicio

Tabla

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.)

 

• 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