ResearchWorks Archive List of Preferred File Formats

• Plain text -- US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 with BOM (.txt, text/plain)
• SGML with included DTD (.sgm, .sgml; application/sgml)
• XML with included schema (.xml; text/xml)
• PDF/A-1 --  ISO 19005-1 (.pdf; application/pdf)

• Plain text -- ISO 8859-x (.txt; text/plain)
• Rich Text Format 1.x (.rtf; text/richtext)
• Cascading Style Sheets (.css; text/css)
• HTML (.html, .htm; text/html)
• LaTeX with referenced files (.latex; application/x-latex)
• Open Office (.odt, .sxw; application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
• OOXML (.docx; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
• PDF with fonts embedded (.pdf; application/pdf)

• Microsoft Word (.doc; application/msword)
• WordPerfect (.wpd;

  application/vndwordperfect)

• all others

Raster

Graphics

• TIFF -- uncompressed (.tiff; image/tiff)
• JPEG2000 -- lossless (.jp2; image/jp2)
• PNG (.png; image/png)

• TIFF -- compressed (.tiff; image/tiff)
• JPEG (.jpg; image/jpeg)
• JPEG2000 -- lossy (.jp2; image/jp2)
• GIF (.gif; image/gif)
• Digital Negative DNG (.dng; image/tiff)
• BMP (.bmp; image/x-ms-bmp)

• PhotoShop (.psd; application/x-photoshop)
• MrSID (.sid; image/x-mrsid)
• RAW files
• all others

Vector

Graphics

• SVG -- no Java script binding (.svg; image/svg+xml)

• Computer Graphics Metafile (.cgm; image/cgm)

• Encapsulated Postscript (.eps; application/postscript)
• Macromedia Flash (.swf; application/x-shockwave-flash)
• all others

• AIFF -- PCM (aif, aiff; audio/aiff)
• WAV -- PCM (.wav; audio/x-wav, audio/wav)

• SUN audio -- uncompressed (.au, .snd; audio/basic)
• Standard MIDI (.mid; audio/midi)
• Ogg Vorbis (.ogg; audio/ogg)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac; audio/x-flac)
• MP3 (.mp3; audio/mpeg, audio/mp3)
• Advance Audio Coding (.mp4; audio/mp4, audio/m4a)

• AIFC -- compressed AIFF (.aifc; audio/aiff)
• RealAudio (.rm, .ra; audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, application/vnd.rn-realmedia)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma; audio/x-ms-wma)
• WAV -- compressed (.wav; audio/x-wav, audio/wav)
• all others

• AVI -- uncompressed (.avi; video/avi, video/msvideo, video/x-msvideo)
• Motion JPEG 2000 (.jp2; video/mj2)
• QuickTime -- uncompressed, motion JPEG (.mov; video/quicktime, video/x-quicktime)

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (.mp1, .mp2; video/mpeg, video/mpeg2)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4; video/mp4)
• Ogg Theora (.ogv, .ogg; video/ogg)

• Windows Media Video (.wmv; video/x-ms-wmv)
• RealVideo (.rm, .rv; video/vnd.rn-realvideo, application/vnd.rn-realmedia)
• all others

Spreadsheet

or Database

• Comma-separated Values (.csv, .txt; text/csv)
• Delimited text

• dBASE (.dbf; application/dbase, application/x-dbase, application/dbf)
• OpenOffice (.ods; application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
• OOXML (.xlsx; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)

• Excel (.xls; application/vnd.ms-excel)
• all others

• Computer program source code

• Compiled / Executable files

• OpenOffice (.odp; application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
• OOXML (.pptx; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation)

• PowerPoint (.ppt; application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
• all others