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Digital preservation is a fast-moving and growing community of practice of ubiquitous relevance, but in which capability is unevenly distributed. Within the research community, digital preservation has a close alignment to the FAIR principles and is delivered through a complex specialist infrastr...

The table contains guidance on file formats recommended and accepted by the UK Data Service for data sharing, reuse and preservation.

SND guidelines on formats best suited for long-term preservation and accessibility.

This webpage from CSDA is an example of the guidance that an archive can develop to help data producers with data management. Topics covered are: Data file structure, Variables, Variable values and coding, Missing values, Data entry and data file integrity, Anonymisation, Weighting, Data file doc...

The DANS guidelines on the file formats best suited for long-term sustainability and accessibility, including the definitions of different types of research data and the list of preferred formats for depositing in the archive.