SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats

Normalisation

• https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Format_policies

Digital Format Registry

• http://www.udfr.org
• http://udfr.org/project/UDFR-final-report.pdf
• http://www.gdfr.info

Types of digital formats and codecs

• For documents refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenDocument_software and http://www.pdfa.org.
• For audio refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec
• For video refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_codecs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)
• For images refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_image

Electronic Metadata Schemas

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Metadata
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_(organization)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronom
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoded_Archival_Description

Digital Formats Extra Information

Click on the heading above.

Closed Formats

Back to Digitisation