Sustainability of Digital Formats
Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Sustainability of Digital Formats
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| Introduction | Sustainability Factors | Content Categories | Format Descriptions | Contact | |
| Full name | ISO 19005-1. Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4, Level B Conformance (PDF/A-1a) |
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| Description |
Part 1 of the PDF/A ISO standard [ISO 19005-1:2005] is a constrained form of Adobe PDF version 1.4 intended to be suitable for long-term preservation of page-oriented documents for which PDF is already being used in practice. Level B conformance (PDF/A-1b) indicates minimal compliance to ensure that the rendered visual appearance of a conforming file is preservable over the long term. Level A conformance (PDF/A-1a) indicates complete compliance with the ISO 19005-1 requirements, including those related to structural and semantic properties of documents. See PDF/A-1. |
| Production phase | A final-state format for delivery to end users and long-term preservation of the document as disseminated to users. |
| Relationship to other formats | |
| Subtype of | PDF, Portable Document Format |
| Subtype of | PDF_1_4, PDF 1.4 |
| Subtype of | PDF/A-1, PDF for Long-term Preservation, Use of PDF 1.4 |
| LC experience or existing holdings | See PDF/A-1. |
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| LC preference | See PDF/A-1. |
| Disclosure | See PDF/A-1. |
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| Documentation | See PDF/A-1. |
| Adoption | See PDF/A-1. |
| Licensing and patents | See PDF/A-1. |
| Transparency | See PDF/A-1. |
| Self-documentation | See PDF/A-1. |
| External dependencies | See PDF/A-1. |
| Technical protection considerations | See PDF/A-1. |
| Text | |
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| Normal rendering | See PDF/A-1. |
| Integrity of document structure | PDF/A-1b does not require representation of the logical structure of the document as specified in section 6.8 of ISO 19005-1. |
| Integrity of layout and display | See PDF/A-1. |
| Support for mathematics, formulae, etc. | See PDF/A-1. |
| Functionality beyond normal rendering | See PDF/A-1. |
| Tag | Value | Note |
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| Filename extension | pdf |
The standard does not indicate that a different extension should be used to distinguish PDF from PDF/A. |
| Internet Media Type | See related format. | See PDF. |
| Magic numbers | See related format. | See PDF. |
| Other | See note. | The standard specifies that the PDF/A version and conformance level of a file shall be specified using the PDF/A Identification extension schema defined in the standard. This schema has two mandatory elements: pdfaid:part and pdfaid:conformance. A PDF-1b file should have the integer value 1 for pdfaid:part and the value "B" for pdfaid:conformance. |
| General | See PDF/A-1. |
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| History | See PDF/A-1. |
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