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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
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
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
AIFF Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
AIFF CLARIN.SI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
AIFF BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
AIFF IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
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 CLARIN.SI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
AVI BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
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
AVI MI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
BMP EKUT Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
BPF CLARIN.SI Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
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
BWFClick to add or suggest missing format information MI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
CDRClick 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
CoNLL-U Sprakbanken Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
CoNLL-U IDS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
CoNLL-U SAW Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
CoNLL-X SAW Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable consider using CoNLL-U instead
DICOM 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). recommended See more info from DANS
DOCClick to add or suggest missing format information DANS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable applicable specifically to Word .doc; see more info from DANS
DOCX DANS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable See more info from DANS
DOCX SAW Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable
EAF MPI-PL Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
EAF CLARIN.SI Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
EAF COCOON Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
EPSClick 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
FLAC Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
FLAC ORTOLANG Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC CLARIN.SI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC FIN-CLARIN Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
FLAC CLARIN-DK-UCPH Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
FLAC ACDH-ARCHE Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
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
FLAC MI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC COCOON Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FoLiA CLST Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
FoLiA CLARIN.SI Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended
GIF EKUT Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
GIF ILC4CLARIN Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
GIF UdS Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
GIF CLARIN.SI Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
GIF ZIM Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
HTML Sprakbanken Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable without js etc. and with generic markup
HTML IDS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable without js etc. and with generic markup
HTML DANS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended See more info from DANS
HTML SAW Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. acceptable
I5 IDS Textual Source Language DataWritten unstructured/plain text or originally structured text (e.g. HTML) without linguistic or other mark-up added for research purposes. recommended See the format description.
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