Choosing The Right File Format/Appendix

Related Reading

• Read
• Recommended Data Formats for Preservation Purposes in the FCLA Digital Archive.
• Digital preservation: a time bomb for Digital Libraries - Margaret Hedstrom
• Digital Preservation in Wikipedia
• Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage (PDF) UNESCO, March 2003.
• European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment Services pdf(1449Kb), 2004. Includes the EU definition of Open Standards (p 9) and outlines reasons for giving strong consideration to OpenSource software (p 10).
• Public Sector Use of Open IT Standards and Open Source Software in the Norwegian public sector
• The Interoperability Framework is the Danish e-Government Interoperability Framework for exchange, storage and availability of electronic information
• Openformats.org
• Wikipedia:Comparison of document markup languages
• "Holding My Data Hostage: Why software licenses should not expire" article by Michael Herf 2001-05-08
• "Planning for longevity" article by Jack Ganssle 2004-07-01

Standards organisation

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis)
• International Standards Organisation (ISO)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• PDF-Archive Committee

File types for further research

Feel free to expand this list.

• Contact lists (ldap for external address books, ldif -Lightweight Directory Interchange Format)
• Audio files (Ogg Vorbis) and the problems with mp3 as proprietary format Frauenhofer Patents
• Video files: Moving Pictures Experts Group MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 include Frauenhofer Patents
• 3D Modeling: ASCII Alias/Wavefront OBJ. What is SQL DDL?
• Financial records
• Calendars: ScheduleWorld
• Diagrams: SVG, DOT graph descriptions or Dia diagrams and flowcharts over Microsoft Visio files

File formats for portability

• Addressbook information: LDIF