Format

The preferred Format for data tables is TAB-delimited TEXT-files (ASCII). Those tables are stored in the relational database (SYBASE) used by Pangaea. Other files are stored in a robot opperated tape archive. File formats should follow closely ISO standards or at least de facto standards.

Documents

 * PDF/A (ISO19005) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
 * ODF (ISO26300) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

Images

 * tif
 * jpg

Video

 * MPG Container
 * MP3
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
 * ISO/IEC 14496-4:2004?
 * MPEG2 (for PAL)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_2
 * ISO/IEC 13818-11:2004
 * Software VLC media player


 * MP4 Container
 * AAC
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
 * ISO/IEC 13818-7:2006
 * MPEG-4 (for HDTV)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
 * ISO/IEC 14496

Audio

 * mp3

Seismic

 * segy

Models

 * netCDF
 * description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF
 * viewer panoply http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

Proprietary formats

 * e.g. echo sounder formats

Links

 * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Video