With the goal of bringing to reseachers of the ancient andean khipus with a tool to share and process electronically the current corpus of these ancient information devices, I present on this paper a proposal for a Quipu Description Format (QDF), a XML based file format designed to describe such documents in a systematic and computer standard way.
@article{arxiv.cs/0505050,
title = {The QDF file format: an electronic system to describe ancient andean khipus},
author = {Manuel Arturo Izquierdo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0505050},
year = {2007}
}