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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
FLAC COCOON Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MKVClick to add or suggest missing format information COCOON Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MP4 COCOON Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE COCOON Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC ORTOLANG Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE ORTOLANG 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
AVI BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
QuickTime BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MP4 BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
NIST SPHERE BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
PhonDat1 BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. discouraged
PhonDat2 BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. discouraged
RAW BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
WAVE BAS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE CLST 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
FLAC IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
M2JClick to add or suggest missing format information IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MP3 IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. discouraged lossy formats should be avoided if possible
MP4 IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MPEG-4 AVC IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended 25 fps, 1920×1080, constant bit rate
MPEG-4 AVC IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable 50 fps, 4096x2160, constant bit rate
MPEG-1 IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MPEG-2 IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
WAVE IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended PCM-WAV, 48 kHz, 16 bit
WAVE IDS Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable PCM-WAV with non-recommended parameters (not 48 kHz, 16 bit)
WAVE CLARINO_Bergen Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended PCM-WAV, 48 kHz, 16 bit
WAVE CLARINO_Bergen Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable PCM-WAV above 22 kHz/16 bit
MP3 CLARINO_Bergen Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MP4 CLARINO_Bergen Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
AIFF Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
FLAC Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
M2JClick to add or suggest missing format information Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MP3 Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. discouraged lossy formats should be avoided if possible
MP4 Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MPEG-4 AVC Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended 25 fps, 1920×1080, constant bit rate
MPEG-1 Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
MPEG-2 Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable
WAVE Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended PCM-WAV, 48 kHz, 16 bit
WAVE Sprakbanken Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. acceptable PCM-WAV with non-recommended parameters (not 48 kHz, 16 bit)
MP4 MPI-PL Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MPEG-1 MPI-PL Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MPEG-2 MPI-PL Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE MPI-PL Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MP4 CMU Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE CMU Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
FLAC ACDH-ARCHE Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
MKVClick to add or suggest missing format information ACDH-ARCHE Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
WAVE ACDH-ARCHE Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
AVI MI Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. recommended
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