Format	Domain	Level	Comments
CMDI	MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints.	recommended	Profile BLAM-bundle-repository-v0.14
CMDI	MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints.	acceptable
CSV	MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints.	acceptable	preferably with W3C Metadata for Tabular Data annotations
EAF	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	recommended
EXB	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	acceptable
EXS	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	acceptable
FLEx	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	acceptable
JP2	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	recommended
JPEG	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	acceptable
MPEG-4 AVC	Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes.	recommended	Video codec h.264 (preferred profile: main, level: 4.0, 1080p, 30fps), Audio encoding AAC (LC) (preferred sampling rate 48 kHz and bit rate 128–384 kbps)
PDF/A	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	recommended
plainText	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	recommended	UTF-8 encoding
PNG	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	acceptable
Praat	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	acceptable
QuickTime	Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes.	recommended	Video codec h.264 (preferred profile: main, level: 4.0, 1080p, 30fps), Audio encoding LPCM (preferred sampling rate 48 kHz and bit depth 16 bit)
TEI	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	recommended
TEISpoken	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	recommended
TIFF	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	recommended
Toolbox	Audiovisual AnnotationAnnotations of audiovisual sources, usually including a basic rendering of the spoken content (transcription) and sometimes further annotation.	acceptable	Toolbox files are still acceptable, but the format itself has proven to be problematic and should be avoided if possible.
WAVE	Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes.	recommended	LPCM audio (preferred sampling rate 48 kHz and bit depth 16 bit)
XHTML	Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data.	recommended
XML	MetadataComprehensive structured information including descriptive, structural and administrative metadata. See the for further hints.	acceptable