File Formats and Metadata Formats

All file formats that are used as input and/or output for Tools

File Formats are new to COPTR as of 2021. Note that the intention of this change is to facilitate linking to other sources of file format information (such as Wikidata), rather than to become a repository of file format information in itself. So this is currently considered experimental, and all feedback is very welcome!

File Formats and Metadata Formats	Wikidata ID	File formats wiki ID
ACCDB	Q1931564	Ext:accdb
ADDML
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object)	Q2819247
ARC (Internet Archive)	Q27824058	ARC (Internet Archive)
BMP	Q192869	BMP
CDR	Q939636
CGM	Q1122267	CGM
COLLADA	Q603967	COLLADA
CSV (Comma Separated Values)	Q935809	CSV
DB		Ext:db
E57	Q33517407	E57
EPUB	Q475488	EPUB
GIF	Q2192	GIF
GLTF/GLB	Q28135989	GlTF
GeoJSON	Q5533904	GeoJSON
GeoSPARQL	Q5533918
GeoTIFF	Q1502796	GeoTIFF
HTTrack Crawl
JP2	Q27979401	JP2
JPEG	Q27996264	JPEG
KML	Q79587	KML
LAS	Q27441566	LAS-LAZ
MDB	Q1931564	Ext:mdb
METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	Q1640667	METS
MPP	Q42332	Microsoft_Project
Nexus 3D	Q1983918	Nexus_3D
OBJ	Q2119595	Wavefront_OBJ
OFF	Q2011664	OFF_(Geomview_Object_File_Format)
PDF	Q42332	PDF
PDF/A	Q1547957	PDF
PLY	Q3077345	PLY
PNG	Q178051	PNG
PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	Q2108820
RDF	Q54872	RDF
SIARD	Q2206173	SIARD
SPARQL	Q54871	SPARQL
SQL	Q47607	Ext:sql
STL	Q1238229	STL
SVG	Q2078	Scalable_Vector_Graphics
TIFF	Q215106	TIFF
VRML	Q176061	VRML
WARC	Q7978505	WARC
WMF	Q1072083	WMF
WMS	Q974922	Web_Map_Service
X3D	Q930428	X3D
XLS		XLS
XML	Q2115	XML

All tools with an input and/or output format:

Tool	Input format	Output format
3DHOP (3D Heritage Online Presenter)	Nexus 3D
7train		METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
ALTAG3D	3D JPEG TIFF PNG PLY PDF DAE	XML
AccessToSiard		SIARD
Archifiltre-Mails	PST
ArchiveBox		PDF WARC JSON
Archivematica	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
ArchivesSpace	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Archivists' Toolkit	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
AsTiffTagViewer	TIFF
Bad Peggy	JPEG PNG BMP GIF
BnL Mets Exporter	ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Bnlviewer	ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
CND3D	PLY JPEG JP2 PNG PDF TIFF XML	XML
CSV export form for Microsoft Access	ACCDB MDB XLS	CSV (Comma Separated Values)
CSV2SIARD	CSV (Comma Separated Values)	SIARD
Calibre	EPUB PDF	EPUB PDF
Checkit tiff	TIFF
CloudCompare	OBJ OFF PLY STL TIFF BIN SBF LAS E57 XYZ PTS PTX FLS DP PCD DRC VTK FBX DXF SHP OUT TXT	OBJ OFF PLY STL BIN E57 SBF PTS TXT XYZ LAS PCD DRC VTK FBX DXF SHP TIFF
Curator's Workbench	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
DBPTK Developer	MySQL MariaDB PostgreSQL Oracle Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Access Progress OpenEdge Sybase ASA	SIARD1 SIARD2 SIARD DK
DFG Viewer	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
DIMAG IngestList		XML
DLCM		METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
DNS	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) LIDO	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) LIDO
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
DSpace	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	E.g. XML XDOMEA XPSR	E.g. XML XDOMEA PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
Disk2FDI		FDI DO DC ADF IMG D64 DSK
Docuteam cosmos	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) EAD (Encoded Archival Description) DC (Dublin Core)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
Docuteam packer	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
Docworks	TIFF JP2 JPEG GIF PDF	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) PDF PDF/A EPUB
Duke Data Accessioner		PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
EPADD		PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
EPrints	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
EchoDep Hub and Spoke Framework Tool Suite	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
EpubCheck	EPUB
EssArch	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
ExifTool	BMP TIFF JPEG GIF PNG GZIP DOC DOCX FLAC PDF JP2
Fedora Commons	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
Filestar	XML XLS X3D WMS WMF SVG CDR STL TIFF VRML PDF PLY OBJ BMP PNG CGM GLTF/GLB JPEG CSV (Comma Separated Values) EPUB COLLADA KML GeoJSON GIF GeoTIFF JP2 RDF MPP	BMP XLS XML X3D WMF TIFF SVG VRML STL PNG PLY PDF OBJ PDF/A KML JPEG GIF GeoTIFF JP2 EPUB GeoJSON COLLADA CGM CSV (Comma Separated Values) RDF CDR
Fq	CSV (Comma Separated Values) XML PNG TIFF SVG JPEG GIF JSON YAML TOML MP4 MP3 Matroka	XML JSON YAML TOML CSV (Comma Separated Values)
Goobi		METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object)
Greenstone	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Grok	JPEG PNG BMP TIFF RAW	JP2
HTTrack		HTTrack Crawl
HTTrack2Arc	HTTrack Crawl	ARC (Internet Archive)
JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) PNG TIFF JPEG PDF WARC GIF AIFF JP2 EPUB XML WAVE GZIP ASCII UTF-8 HTML MP3
JHOVE2	PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
Jpylyzer	JP2
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