Translations:Aanbevolen bestandsformaten om je digitaal archief leesbaar te houden/60/en

Databases come in different forms and perform different functions. Archiving a database is essentially about exporting the information from the database in a form that can be imported into a new database. It often uses Excel tables, or CSV or XML files, but other data files are also possible. It's important to properly document how the database is organised. And the same applies here as for websites: build databases in such a way that makes it easy to retrieve the information from them in forms that can easily be imported into other databases.