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Christian Förster committed Sep 25, 2024
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"## {octicon}`globe;1em` [Library of Congress - File Formats](http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/index.html)\n",
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"It is difficult to give comprehensive advice on file formats suited for archiving and digital preservation. The Library of Congress (LoC) Recommended Formats Statement is a good starting point, as is the List of archivable File Formats of the Swiss Federal Archives.\n",
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":::{admonition} Rules of Thumb\n",
":class: dropdown, tip\n",
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":::{dropdown} Rules of Thumb\n",
"- Avoid proprietary formats (prefer standardized ones)\n",
"- Avoid pseudo-standards, such as xlsx, docx, which you can recognize by the fact that there do not exist multiple implementations across different applications and platforms.\n",
"- Anything \"plain text\" that is not pure ASCII should be UTF-8 encoded.\n",
"- Simpler is better (as long as no info is lost).\n",
"- If your original data comes in a \"low-quality\" format (e.g. MP3, GIF, ...) just keep it like that.\n",
":::\n",
"\n",
"It is difficult to give comprehensive advice on file formats suited for archiving and digital preservation. The Library of Congress (LoC) Recommended Formats Statement is a good starting point, as is the List of archivable File Formats of the Swiss Federal Archives.\n",
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"## {octicon}`globe;1em` [Research Data Life-Cycle Management](https://www.dlcm.ch/about-us/dlcm-project)\n",
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"A large, national-level project that aims at providing guidelines, training activities, policy support and various tools to support researchers and their institutions in all aspects of data management.\n",
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