Recommended File Formats

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

.pdf

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