Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) accepts work in any digital format; however, submission in a file format listed below is strongly encouraged. The formats listed below are considered relatively stable and therefore facilitate long-term preservation efforts. These formats exhibit all or many of the following characteristics: open documentation; support across a range of software platforms; wide adoption; no compression (or lossless compression); no embedded files or embedded programs/scripts; and non-proprietary format. For additional information on the TSW preservation strategy, please see the Preservation Policy.
Textual Formats | File Extensions |
Acrobat Adoba PDF/A | |
Comma Separated Values | .csv |
Open Office Formats | .odt, .ods, .odp |
Plain Text (US-ASCII, UTF-8) | .txt |
XML | .xml |
Image/Graphic Formats | File Extensions |
JPEG | .jpg |
JPEG2000 | .jp2 |
PNG | .png |
SVG 1.1 (no Java binding) | .svg |
TIFF | .tif, .tiff |
Audio Formats | File Extensions |
AIFF | .aif, .aiff |
WAVE | .wav |
Video Formats | File Extensions |
AVI (uncompressed) | .avi |
Motion JPEG2000 | .mj2, .mjp2 |
QuickTime* | .mov |
Matroska | .mkv |
*Recommended because of wide adoption