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Writing a data management plan: Research data formats

Research data come in many varied formats:

Text
Plain text files
MS Word
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Numerical
SPSS
Stata
MS Excel
SAS

Multimedia
JPEG
TIFF
Dicom
MPEG
Quicktime
Bitmap

Models
3D
Statistical
Similitude
Macroeconomic
Causal

Software
Java
C
Perl
Python
Ruby
PHP

Discipline specific

Flexible Image Transport System (FITS), astronomy
Crystallographic Information File (CIF), chemistry
GRIdded Binary (GRIB), meteorology

Instrument specific
Olympus Confocal Microscope Data Format
Carl Zeiss Digital Microscopic Image Format (ZVI)

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PILOT - Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html