Recommended Standards Files format from our service for data sharing or archiving (ranked in descending order of preference):
Text:
• PDF/A
– PDF/X
• Plain text (.txt)
• Open Office (.odt)
• XML / HTML (with schema)
• Word XML (.docx)
• RTF
• LaTeX
Images:
• Bitmap
– TIFF (uncompressed)
– PNG
– JPEG2000
– (GIF)
• Vector
– SVG
Tabular data:
• CSV (comma, tab, semi-colon)
• Open Office (.ods)
• XML / HTML (with schema)
• Excel (.xlsx)
• .SQL
Video:
• MPEG-4 (H.264) (~ MP4)
• Motion JPEG 2000
• MPEG-1/2
Audio:
• WAV (preferably Broadcast Wave Format, LPCM)
• AIFF (LPCM)
• OGG Vorbis
• MP3 MPEG Layer III
• AAC MPEG-4