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
 * 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 recordsCalendars: ScheduleWorld Diagrams: SVG, DOT graph descriptions or Dia diagrams and flowcharts over Microsoft Visio files

File formats for portability

 * Addressbook information: LDIF