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„Open, disclosed and frequently used formats are preferred as archive file formats, the assumption being that these will have a longer life, and there are more likely to be techniques and tools for converting or emulating them, given that they are supported by a wide circle of users.“
Mainly used formats are pdf, csv, plain text, xml and its specification xml-tei and several image file formats like TIFF, jpg, etc. or even tool specific formats like kml (for the DARIAH-DE Geobrowser).A list of those proposed file formats is listed here below (see p. 26f.):
for structured text: XML (http://www.w3.org/XML/) preferably TEI/XML
- for unformatted text (including csv and plain text): ASCII/Unicode
for raster graphics: TIFF 6.0 (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf)
Further recommendations from the nestor criteria catalogue:
for formatted text: PDF/A, ISO 19005-1: 2005 (http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=38920)
for audio formats: WAVE (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms713498%28VS.85%29.asp)
for video files: MPEG 4 File Format, ISO/IEC 14496 (http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm)
At all levels of the publication workflow and lifecycle of the DARIAH-DE Repository (as illustrated and described above in the section Data Reuse) support and consultation are guaranteed and given by staff members of the SUB and DARIAH-DE dealing with the DARIAH-DE Repository via:
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