Standards and Formats

Basic Principles

CLARIN adheres to the following principles:

• Open standards are preferred over proprietary standards
• Formats and protocols should be:
  • Well-documented
  • Verifiable
  • Proven (being used in practice)
• Text-based formats are (where possible) preferred over binary formats
• In the case of digitisation of an analogue signal, using no or lossless compression is recommended.

Learning More

• Ongoing work by the CLARIN Standards Committee
• FAQ about recommended formats and standards
• Document: Standards for LRT

Relevant Formats

Several CLARIN centres have published information on what formats they recommend for language research data depositions:

• ​ACDH/ARCHE
• ASV
• BAS
• BBAW
• CLARIN-DK
• CLARIN:EL
• CLARIN.SI
• COCOON
• ​DANS
• HZSK​
• IDS
• ILC4CLARIN
• LAC
• LINDAT-CLARIAH/CZ
• ORTOLANG
• TALAR (EKUT)
• TalkBank
• TROLLing
• TLA (MPI-PL)
• UdS

Relevant Standards

The CLARIN Standards Information System provides information on standards used in CLARIN and on formats accepted for data deposition at particular centres..