Format

SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases)

Summary

Name: SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases)
Version: 2.1
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/1196
Format type: Database
Description: Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases is a format for storing content of relational databases in files for long-term preservation e.g. in archives. The format was developed by the Swiss Federal Archives. It is an open standard and is supported by the SIARD software of the Swiss Federal Archives. SIARD format is a ZIP file (based on the 64 bit extension of the ZIP format introduced by PkWare Inc. with version 4.5 of the ZIP format definition in order to avoid size limitations which are unrealistic for databases). The ZIP file contains an XML file describing the database structure and metadata as well as a collection of XML files describing the table content (database primary data) as well as, optionally, some text files and some binary files representing database large objects (BLOBs and CLOBs).
File extensions: siard
Source: Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen / Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen
Developed by: Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
Supported by: Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives

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Type: ZIP