The Research and Scholarship Repository accepts works in any digital format. Standard formats include: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, JPEG, WAV, CSV
To ensure long-term digital preservation and access, we encourage certain relatively stable formats. These formats exhibit all of 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. The tables below list recommended file formats:
| Textual Formats | File Extensions |
|---|---|
| Acrobat PDF/A | |
| Comma-Separated Values | .csv |
| Open Office Formats | .odt, .ods, .odp |
| Plain Texas (US-ASCII, UTF-8) | .txt |
| XML | .xml |
| Image/Graphic Formats | File Extensions |
|---|---|
| JPEG | .jpg |
| 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
The University Libraries Digitization Lab is managed through our Digitization and Preservation Services Unit. If you have materials you are interested in submitting and need digitization, please contact us for more information: UL-RDS@txstate.edu