Preservation formats

Class Format MIME Type Extensions Description
Text PDF/A application/pdf or text/plain 1 .pdf PDF for archiving
Image METS+TIFF image/mets+tiff .xml .tiff METS XML file with the structure and uncompressed TIFF images
Database DBML application/dbml or application/dbml+octet-stream .xml .bin A DBML XML with all the database structure and data. If BLOBs exists, they are extracted to a file and added as octet streams
Audio Wave audio/wav .wav Wave audio format
Video MPEG-2 video/mpeg2 .mpeg .mpg MPEG 2 video format, with DVD internal structure

Ingested formats

Class Format MIME Type Extensions
Text PDF application/pdf .pdf
Text Microsoft Word application/msword .doc
Text Microsoft Open XML document application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document .docx
Text Open Office Text application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text .odt
Text Rich Text Format application/rtf .rtf
Text Plain Text text/plain .txt
Image TIFF image/mets+tiff .xml .tiff .tif
Image JPEG image/mets+jpeg .xml .jpeg .jpg
Image PNG image/mets+png .xml .png
Image BMP image/mets+bmp .xml .bmp
Image GIF image/mets+gif .xml .gif
Image ICO image/mets+ico .xml .ico
Image XPM image/mets+xpm .xml .xpm
Image TGA image/mets+tga .xml .tga
Image MISC image/mets+misc .xml .tiff .tif .jpeg .jpg .png .bmp .gif .ico .xpm .tga
Database 2 DBML application/dbml .xml
Database 2 DBML+FILES application/dbml+octet-stream .xml .bin
Audio Wave audio/wav .wav
Audio MP3 audio/mpeg .mp3
Audio MP4 audio/mp4 .mp4
Audio Flac audio/flac .flac
Audio AIFF audio/aiff .aif .aiff
Audio Ogg Vorbis audio/ogg .ogg
Audio Windows Media Audio audio/x-ms-wma .wma
Video Mpeg 1 video/mpeg .mpg .mpeg
Video Mpeg 2 video/mpeg2 .vob .mpv2 mp2v
Video Mpeg 4 video/mp4 .mp4
Video Audio Video Interlave video/avi .avi
Video Windows Media Video video/x-ms-wmv .wmv
Video Quicktime video/quicktime .mov .qt

1 Only if original format is also text/plain

2 In RODA-in a JDBC is used to connect to the DBMS and import a database to DBML. Supported DBMS are: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access and Generic ODBC