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The preservation of electronic information is a key issue with electronic theses and dissertations. The following is a guide to assist students in selecting digital formats that are most likely to migrate to later formats most easily, or remain as standard formats in the forseeable future.
| Recommended | Formats recommended for long-term preservation |
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Graphic
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JPG, PNG, |
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Documents/Text
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TIFF, PDF (use Type 1 Postscript fonts) |
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Video
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MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (need specifics on codecs) |
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Audio
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WAV, MID, MPEG-1, layer 3 (MP3): use LAME 3.91 128kb/sec continuous bitrate (CBR) |
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Graphic
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GIF |
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Documents/Text
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Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) |
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Video
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Apple Quick Time (.mov), Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved (.avi), MPEG-4 |
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Audio
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AIF |
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Graphic
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Adobe Photoshop (PSD) |
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Documents/Text
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Quark Express, Adobe Pagemaker |
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Video
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RealVideo, non-standard MPEG codecs |
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Audio
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RealAudio, Microsoft Windows Media File |
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