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 <li>3D Modeling: ASCII Alias/Wavefront OBJ. What is SQL DDL? Financial recordsCalendars: ScheduleWorld Diagrams: SVG, DOT graph descriptions or Dia diagrams and flowcharts over Microsoft Visio files File formats for portability Addressbook information: LDIF