Format
SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases)
Summary
- Name
- SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases)
- Version
- 2.2
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1777
- 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).
- Note
- Specification: https://siard.dilcis.eu/SIARD%202.2/SIARD%202.2.pdf
- File extensions
-
siard - Source
- Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
- Developed by
- Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
- Supported by
- Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
Relationships
- Is subsequent version of
Container signatures
Type: ZIP
31030 - SIARD 2.2
- File path
- header/siardversion/2.2/
Changelog
-
Added in V109
- Release date
- 1 November 2022
SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases): Signature researched and samples provided by Swiss Federal Archives.
SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases): Full entry added. Submitted by Swiss Federal Archives.