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Media Formats/Mime Types

A MIME type (also known as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) is a standard that indicates the format of a file. It is a fundamental characteristic of a digital resource that influences its ability to be accessed and used over time.

The purpose of this section is to provide a list of MIME types corresponding to different types of content/media that are supported or not by Europeana.

Media formats supported on Europeana Collections

Format NameMime-typeFile Extension(s)
Image
JPEGimage/jpeg.jpeg
PNGimage/png.png
GIFimage/gif.gif
Generic Bitmapimage/bmp.bmp
Microsoft Bitmapimage/x-ms-bmp.bmp
Text
PDFapplication/pdf.pdf
Video
MPEG-4 Videovideo/mp4.mp4
Open Web Media Project – Videovideo/webm.webm
M4vvideo/x-m4v.m4v
Quicktime videovideo/quicktime.mov, .qt
Audio
MP3 or other MPEG formataudio/mpeg.mp3
Waveform Audioaudio/x-wav.wav, .wave

Media formats not supported in Europeana Collections

Not all the links to media resources that Europeana receives from data providers can be displayed in the Europeana Collections portal, however these are still made available for download to our users for reuse. The respective media formats (and mime-types) are presented in the table below.

Format NameMime-typeFile Extension(s)
Image
TIFFimage/tiff.tiff
Adobe Photoshopimage/vnd.adobe.photoshop.psd
Text
Plain Texttext/plain.txt
Video
Microsoft Windows Media Videovideo/x-ms-wmv.wmv
Flash Videovideo/x-flv.flv
MPEG Videovideo/mpeg.mpg
Audio Video Interleave (AVI)video/x-msvideo.avi
Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF)video/x-ms-asf.asf
Audio
Native FLAC format (FLAC in its own container)audio/x-flac.flac
Windows Media Audioaudio/x-ms-wma.wma
Audio Interchange File Formataudio/x-aiff.aiff, .aif, .aifc
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