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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 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
DOCX ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
HTML ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
ODTClick to add or suggest missing format information ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
PDF ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable
PDF/A-1 ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
PDF/A-2 ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
PDF/A-3 ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. acceptable
TEI ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
plainText ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
XML ACDH-ARCHE DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
SVG ACDH-ARCHE 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
TIFF ACDH-ARCHE 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
CSV ACDH-ARCHE Lexical ResourceStructured (item-based) resources for lexical and/or conceptual information on units of language (e.g. wordlists, lexicons, WordNets etc.) recommended
TEI ACDH-ARCHE Text AnnotationAnnotations of textual sources/written text, with the original text included or as stand-off. recommended
XML ACDH-ARCHE Text AnnotationAnnotations of textual sources/written text, with the original text included or as stand-off. recommended
plainText ACDH-ARCHE 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
XSDClick to add or suggest missing format information ACDH-ARCHE Tool SupportTool-related formats required for specific functionality of the tool or reliable reuse of resources (e.g. tagsets, annotation schemes, vocabularies, language models, parameter files, and other specifications or settings) recommended
AG XML BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended
EAF BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended
EMU BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended
BPF BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended
Praat BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. recommended
SAM BAS Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation. 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
CMDI BAS Catalogue MetadataBasic structured information for discoverability and general description, to be openly provided for harvesting. recommended Profile media-corpus
CMDI BAS Contextual InformationStructured information on the communicative event or text and its creators (i.e. participants or authors) relevant for analysis. recommended Profile media-session
CMDI BAS MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints. acceptable
DC XML BAS MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints. acceptable
CMDI BBAW Catalogue MetadataBasic structured information for discoverability and general description, to be openly provided for harvesting. recommended
HTML BBAW DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
TEI BBAW DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
plainText BBAW DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
XML BBAW DocumentationUnstructured documentation of the resource and its parts such as corpus or annotation guidelines. recommended
LMF BBAW Lexical ResourceStructured (item-based) resources for lexical and/or conceptual information on units of language (e.g. wordlists, lexicons, WordNets etc.) recommended
DTABf BBAW Text AnnotationAnnotations of textual sources/written text, with the original text included or as stand-off. recommended
TEI BBAW Text AnnotationAnnotations of textual sources/written text, with the original text included or as stand-off. recommended
XML BBAW Text AnnotationAnnotations of textual sources/written text, with the original text included or as stand-off. recommended
TCFClick to add or suggest missing format information BBAW 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
plainText BBAW 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
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