Recommended Internet File Formats

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Summary

These are my recommendations for authors who want to publish information on the internet.

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Detail

Text

	Format	Recommendation
	HTML
	TXT
	PDF
	ODF
	DOCX
	DOC

Images

	Format	Recommendation
	JPEG
	PNG
	GIF

Audio

	Format	Recommendation
	MP3
	FLAC
	OGG
	AAC
	WAV

Video

	Format	Recommendation
	FLV
	SWF

Data

	Format	Recommendation
	CSV
	XML
	TSV
	JSON
	Atom
	RSS

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Resources

• Recommended Data Formats for Preservation Purposes in the Florida Digital Archive
• Choosing The Right File Format from WikiBooks (very much a work in progress as of May 2007).