Recommendations on formats and standards useful in digitisation. Summary

Three summary tables of recommendations provide a concise view on selected options:

  • Table 2 summarises recommendations for long-term preservation, including master file, metadata and OCR results formats.
  • Table 3 summarises recommendations for online delivery, including delivery file formats, descriptive metadata formats and identification of objects.
  • Table 4 summarises recommendation for advanced and supporting technologies, including Linked Open Data, linguistic resources and tools packaging.

Table 2 Recommendations for long-term preservation

Application

Recommended

Alternative

Master file format for still images

TIFF

JPEG2000 (JP2)

Master file format for textual documents

TEI, PDF/A

UTF-8 encoded plain text

Descriptive metadata format

DCMES, MODS

MARC21

Structural metadata format

METS

N/A

Administrative metadata format

PREMIS, MIX, TextMD

N/A

OCR results format

ALTO, PAGE

UTF-8 encoded plain text

Table 3 Recommendations for online delivery

Application

Recommended

Alternative

Delivery file format

JPEG, PDF, JPEG2000 (JP2), ePUB, MOBI derived from ePUB

N/A

Descriptive metadata format

DCMES, EDM

N/A

Identification of objects

OAI Identifier, DOI

N/A

Table 4 Recommendations for advanced and supporting technologies

Application

Recommended

Alternative

Linked Open Data

RDFa, SPARQL

N/A

Linguistic resources

TEI, CMDI, LMF

N/A

Tools packaging

At least MS Windows and Linux packages

N/A