Electronic Records
Drake University Archives and Special Collections collects and manages University records of all types to continually support Drake University’s administration, teaching, research, and service needs. Below is a list of acceptable file formats for born-digital and digitized records.
Born-Digital Text Document
FORMATS EXTENSIONS Microsoft Word .doc/.docx Microsoft Excel .xls/.xlsx Microsoft PowerPoint .ppt/.pptx Portable Document Format .pdf Portable Document Format Archival .pdf/a
Digitized/Scanned Text Document
FORMATS EXTENSIONS Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) .tiff Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) .jpeg/.jpg Portable network Graphics (PNG) .png Portable Document Format .pdf Portable Document Format Archival .pdf/a
* Documents must be scanned to at least 400 ppi.
Image
FORMATS EXTENSIONS Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) .tiff Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) .jpeg/.jpg Portable network Graphics (PNG) .png
Email
FORMATS EXTENSIONS Email Mail (EML) .eml Email Mailbox (MBOX) .mbox Microsoft Outlook Item (MSG) .msg
Sound
FORMATS EXTENSIONS MPEG Audio Layer III .mp3 Waveform Audio file .wav
Video
FORMATS EXTENSIONS Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) .avi QuickTime File Format (MOV) .mov Windows Media Video 9 File Format (WMV) .wmv