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# Export formats and source inclusion

Export format determines which Unitlab structures remain native and which require mapping. Source inclusion determines how a consumer locates media, documents, groups, and protected data.

Working converters include:

| Data family  | Supported formats          |
| ------------ | -------------------------- |
| Image        | COCO, YOLOv8, YOLOv5, UUEF |
| Video        | COCO, YOLOv8, YOLOv5, UUEF |
| Medical      | COCO, YOLOv8, YOLOv5, UUEF |
| Document/PDF | UUEF only                  |
| Text         | JSONL, UUEF                |
| Audio        | Audio JSON, RTTM, UUEF     |

Native single-family formats apply to one compatible family. A release containing more than one family must use **UUEF** or **Standard Bundle**.

* **UUEF** is the universal full-fidelity format. It preserves properties, attributes, relations, item properties, tags, page/frame context, and the richer annotation graph.
* **Standard Bundle** creates one ZIP containing a native output per selected family plus a manifest describing the release, source scope, selected types, split ratios, written files, and omitted empty combinations.

Default Standard Bundle choices are COCO for image/video/medical, JSONL for text, and Audio JSON for audio. Document data uses UUEF.

### Use this in production

* Inventory classes, geometry, masks, keypoints, segments, spans, relations, properties, Item Properties, temporal state, and Data Group context before choosing a format.
* Prefer the platform-native representation when another format would lose required structure.
* Document any lossy mapping or post-processing step.
* Choose source bundling, references, stable URLs, and tokens according to downstream runtime and security requirements.
* Validate a sample with the real parser before releasing full volume.