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Summary
Name	SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases)
Version	2.0
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/995
Family
Classification	Database
Disclosure	Full
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).
Orientation	Binary
Byte order
Related file formats	Is previous version of SIARD (Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases) (2.1)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
Supported by	Swiss Federal Archives / Swiss Federal Archives
Source	Keep Solutions / Keep Solutions
Source date	07 Mar 2017
Source description	This format is identifiable via a container signature in DROID 6 and later.
Last updated	13 Sep 2018
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