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PRONOM allows users to save reports in standard formats. This is in accord with
the e-Government Interchange Format specifications, to ensure that systems are able
to exchange data in non-proprietary formats. The two formats supported by PRONOM
are XML (Extensible Markup Language)
and CSV ( Comma-Separated Variables).
Saving a report from PRONOM will save all the data used to generate the report PRONOM
displays in the web browser. When you click on a link to download a report in XML
or CSV formats, your browser will prompt you for a location to save the file. You
can then view the file later, or import the data into any applications you use to
support records preservation.
XML
XML is a language allowing file formats to be specified. Formats specified using
XML can be easily converted to other formats by well-defined means, ensuring that
data can be exchanged with other systems even though they may not use precisely
the same format.
The formats used for storing the PRONOM reports are defined in XML Schema Definition
(XSD) documents which are publicly available. XML files can be read with a simple
text viewer, or typically by a web browser to provide more friendly formatting of
the data.
CSV
CSV is a format in which separate records are each written to a single, separate
line in a text file. The fields of the record are separated by commas. Files in
this format can be read with a simple text viewer, or be imported easily into applications
such as spreadsheets.
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