What standards are recommended by CLARIN?

An open list follows:

• character encoding: ISO -10646 UNICODE, UTF-8
• country codes: ISO 3166
• language codes: ISO 639-1/2/3
• codes for the representation of names of scripts: ISO 15924
• text format: XML
• text format: CSV (comma separated with "-quotes, with a header line and preferrably a line of ISOcat URIs for each column)
• feature structure representation: ISO 24610-1:2006
• representation of primary sources: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
• knowledge engeneering: RDF, RDF-S, SKOS, OWL
• audio/speech: PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) for digitizing sound waves, the Alphabet of the International Phonetic Association for phonetic transcriptions;
• video/multimodality: MJPEG2000 lossles as backend format, MPEG2 or H.264 for handling and processing
• data categories: ISO DCR and ISOcat
• annotation of temporal entities: TimeML (part of TC 37/SC 4)
• morpho-syntactic annotation: MAF (Morpho-syntactic Annotation Framework), ISO/DIS 24611
• syntactic annotation: SynAF (Syntactic Annotation Framework), ISO/CD 24615
• lexical annotation: LMF (Lexical Markup Framework), ISO 24613:2008
• linguistic annotation: LAF (Linguistic Annotation Framework), ISO/DIS 24612