Preferred data files characteristics
- Non-proprietary
- Open, documented standard
- Common usage by research community
- Standard representation (ASCII, Unicode)
- Unencrypted
- Checksum to ensure integrit
Preferred file formats
- ODF, PDF (not Word)
- CSV, ASCII (not Excel)
- PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000, GIF ( classical JPG to be preferably)
- JSON, XML or RDF
