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PARSE.Insight Content-types

Adapted from Metadata Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories.

Data Type	Description
Standard office documents	text documents, spreadsheets, presentations
Networkbased data	websites, email, chat history, etc.
Databases	MS Access, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc.
Images	JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, TIF, PNG, SVG, etc.
Structured graphics	CAD, CAM, 3D, VRML, etc.
Audiovisual data	WAVE, MP3, MP4, WebM, FLAC, Ogg, etc.
Scientific and statistical data formats	SPSS, FITS, GIS, etc.
Raw data	device specific output
Plain text	TXT in various encodings, and CSV files
Structured text	XML, SGML, RTF, LaTeX, Markdown, ReST, etc.
Archived data	ZIP, RAR, JAR, etc.
Software applications	modelling tools, editors, IDE, compilers, etc.
Source code	scripting, Java, C, C++, Fortran, etc.
Configuration data	parameter settings, logs, library files
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