1. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
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Valentijn Gilissen, DANS-KNAW
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Preservation Officer
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(KNAW & NWO)
since 2005
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dates back to
1964 (Steinmetz
Foundation),
Historical Data
Archive 1989
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provide permanent
access to digital
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PARTHENOS, Hollander, Hella, Morselli, Francesca, Uiterwaal, Frank,
Admiraal, Femmy, Trippel, Thorsten, & Di Giorgio, Sara. (2018, December 1).
PARTHENOS Guidelines to FAIRify data management and make data reusable.
Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2668479
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13. As a general guideline, DANS considers that the file
formats best suited for longtime preservation and
accessibility are file formats which:
-are commonly used
-have open specifications
-are independent of specific software, developers or
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14. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
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3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
15. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
Preferred Format Non-preferred Format
3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
16. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
Preferred Format Non-preferred Format
3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
17. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
Preferred Format Non-preferred Format
3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
18. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
Preferred Format Non-preferred Format
3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
19. Preferred Formats
Text documents • PDF/A (.pdf)
• ODT (.odt)
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Office Open XML (.docx)
• Rich Text File (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
Geographical
Information (GIS)
• GML (.gml)
• MIF/MID
(.mif/mid)
• Esri Shapefiles (.shp & related files)
• MapInfo (.tab & related files)
• KML (.kml)
• Esri Geodatabase (.gdb)
• Project files/Workspaces (.mxd, .wor,
.qgs)
Spreadsheets • ODS (.ods)
• CSV (.csv)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Office Open XML Workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF/A (.pdf)
Preferred Format Non-preferred Format
3D • WaveFront Object
(.obj)
• Polygon file
format (.ply)
• X3D (.x3d)
• COLLADA (.dae)
• Autodesk FBX (.fbx)
• Blender (.blend)
• 3D PDF (.pdf)
20. Spreadsheets / Data Tables to CSV
Frankema, Prof. dr. E. (Wageningen University); Woltjer, P. (Wageningen University);
Dalrymple-Smith, A. (Wageningen University); Bulambo, L. (Wageningen University) (2017):
An Introduction to the African Commodity Trade Database, 1730-2010.
DANS. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xt9-fzkw
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Spreadsheets
Frankema, Prof. dr. E. (Wageningen University); Woltjer, P. (Wageningen University);
Dalrymple-Smith, A. (Wageningen University); Bulambo, L. (Wageningen University) (2017):
An Introduction to the African Commodity Trade Database, 1730-2010.
DANS. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xt9-fzkw
22. Preferred Formats
export folder
CSV and PDF/A exportsExcel files
Frankema, Prof. dr. E. (Wageningen University); Woltjer, P. (Wageningen University);
Dalrymple-Smith, A. (Wageningen University); Bulambo, L. (Wageningen University) (2017):
An Introduction to the African Commodity Trade Database, 1730-2010.
DANS. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xt9-fzkw
25. 3D
Nagel, D (Wildcard); Cocquyt, T. (HuygensING) (2013):
Animated, interactive 3D visualization of a corn mill, after a description by Ramelli.
DANS. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zzq-ymge
26. 3D
Trognitz, M. (IANUS); Niven, K. (ADS), Gilissen V. (DANS) (2016):
3D Models in Archaeology: A Guide to Good Practice.
https://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/g2gp/3d_Toc
35. Mass migrations and transformations of archived data to new standards.
“Upgrading is compulsory.”
--the Cybermen
Doctor Who, BBC Studios, 1963-2019
Migrations to Preferred Formats
40. THANK YOU!
ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the
H2020 Programme, contract no. H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1-823914.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole
responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the European Commission.
Contact: hella.hollander@dans.knaw.nl
valentijn.gilissen@dans.knaw.nl
julian.richards@york.ac.uk
www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
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