[Duraspace] Fwd: [Dspace-tech] Filterable document types in DSpace

Hilton Gibson hilton.gibson at gmail.com
Thu May 16 10:54:39 SAST 2013


Hi All

Important information about digital document formats can have their content
extracted/filtered by the DSpace software.
It seems the open formats work but not the closed ones like .xlsx and .docx
etc..
See:
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital_Formats for
more info.

Cheers

hg

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: helix84 <helix84 at centrum.sk>
Date: 16 May 2013 10:45
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Filterable document types in DSpace
To: "Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES]" <susan.m.thornton at nasa.gov>
Cc: "dspace-tech (dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net)" <
dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net>


Hi Sue,

the supported formats are documented here (this is for 1.8 because 1.7
didn't have this in docs, but I don't believe it changed between 1.7 and
1.8):

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC18/Transforming%20DSpace%20Content%20(MediaFilters)

To sum it up, binary MS Office files are filterable (incl. Excel), but not
the Office Open XML (MS Office 2007+) formats (docx, xlsx, pptx). I'm not
really sure about PDF/A since you're explicitly asking about it, but I
don't think it would be any worse than the generic PDF support, i.e. IMHO
it's supported. rtf doesn't seem to be supported.


Regards,
~~helix84

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