File Formats

File types come and go, so the XARK standard is focused more on how to model the data than how to store or transmit it.

That said, there are two canonical formats:

• JSON: for general use, such as local storage, on the web, such as in hosted files and APIs
• XMP: for embedding within images or other files that support XMP metadata

One could also use XML, YAML, semantically-tagged HTML, or a database. It may even be possible to store XARK data in GEDCOM, though that would not be recommended.