Archiving

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* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
 
* [[ZIP]] (.zip)
 
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
 
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== Institutional archiving ==
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* [[OAIS]] (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
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* [[[Submission Information Package]]
  
 
== Self-extracting archives ==
 
== Self-extracting archives ==

Revision as of 04:28, 12 December 2012

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

Contents

Archiving only

(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

Compression + archiving

(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller. See Compression for formats that compress single files/streams)

Institutional archiving

  • OAIS (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
  • [[[Submission Information Package]]

Self-extracting archives

(in addition, some of the other archivers are able to produce executable files for some platform which include the archived data and a program to extract them, and generally have the file extension normal for executables, such as .exe for DOS/Windows)

  • SDA (Self Dissolving Archive)
  • SEA (Self-Extracting Archive]
  • SFX (Self-Extracting Archive)

Transfer encodings

(convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.)

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