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Format Recommendations

This page presents formats of data depositions that various CLARIN centres are ready to accept. Each format, for each centre, can be "recommended", "acceptable" or "discouraged" in the context of several domains that represent the functions that the deposited data can play. The level of recommendation should always be viewed as relative to the profile of the given centre.

  • "recommended" should be interpreted as meaning that the centre in question will in most cases be able to process the data without much manipulation and that it is likely that the data will be preserved long-term in that format (the specifics are up to that centre);
  • "acceptable" should be interpreted as meaning that the centre may need to spend some time and resources on the up-conversion of the data, and that the data may be preserved in one of the recommended formats instead;
  • "discouraged" should be understood as indicating that the centre may find it problematic to up-convert the data.

Use the dropboxes to select the particular domain, centre, and/or level of recommendation. Columns can be sorted, and your results can be downloaded as XML.

The exported XML files for a specified centre can be used to extend or modify the recommendations for that centre, by an authorised person. In order to aid in the process, please consult the separate lists of all available file formats and of the functional groupings of formats (functional domains).

As of mid-2022, not every centre with depositing services has submitted the information to the SIS; in some cases, the information had to be unreliably mapped from lists provided on centre homepages onto the feature matrix offered by the SIS (created on the basis of the SIS functional domains and levels of recommendation). If you think you see an error, please kindly help us get it right.

Format Centre Domain Recommendation
XML DANS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended See more info from DANS
AACClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
AIFF DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
AVI DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
BWFClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
FLAC DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
MKVClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
MP3 DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
MP4 DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
MPEG-2 DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
MXFClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
OGGClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
OPUSClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
QTClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
WAVE DANS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
XML DANS Catalogue MetadataBasic structured information for discoverability and general description, to be openly provided for harvesting. recommended See more info from DANS
XML DANS Contextual InformationStructured information on the communicative event or text and its creators (i.e. participants or authors) relevant for analysis. recommended See more info from DANS
DOCClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable applicable specifically to Word .doc; see more info from DANS
DOCX DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable See more info from DANS
HTML DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended See more info from DANS
Markdown DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable See more info from DANS
ODTClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended See more info from DANS
PDF DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable See more info from DANS
PDF/A DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended See more info from DANS
RTFClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable See more info from DANS
SGMLClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable See more info from DANS
plainText DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended Encoded as UTF-8/16/32, see more info from DANS
XML DANS DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended See more info from DANS
ASCII Grid DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
ArcGIS.gdb DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
ArcGIS.mxd DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
DGNClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
DWGClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
DXF DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
AutoCAD DXF-R12 DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
Erdas.img DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
GeoJSON DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended
GeoTIFF DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
GML DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
KML DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
MapInfo.mif DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
MapInfo.tab DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
MapInfo.wor DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
QGIS.qgs DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
Shapefile DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
Worldfile.jpgw DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
Worldfile.tifw DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. acceptable See more info from DANS
XML DANS GeodataInformation on geographic locations. recommended See more info from DANS
XML DANS Image AnnotationAnnotations of image sources. recommended See more info from DANS
AIClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). acceptable See more info from DANS
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