Open Formats

The formats we are interested in

Principle

• We are interested in Widely Used file formats.
• We are more interested in Open Format than Proprietary format.

Open format

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format

Multimedia

• GIF - Graphics Interchange Format, patents expired 2004 become free
• JPEG 2000 – an image format standardized by ISO/IEC
• PNG – a raster image format standardized by ISO/IEC

Text

• Plain text - like ASCII
• PDF - open standard for documents exchange
• Office Open XML - OOXML for Microsoft Office software

Archiving

• ZIP — for both archiving and compression

Other

• FreeOTFE — container for encrypted data
• TrueCrypt — container for encrypted data
• WebDav — internet filesystem format, ISO
• XML - a general-purpose markup language, standardized by W3C

Proprietary format

Multimedia

• BMP - bitmap image file
• DIB - Device-independent bitmaps DIB

Software Development

• CLASS - Java bytecode file which can be executed on JVM
• EXE - A common file name extension denoting an executable file
• DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2
• Symbian,
• OpenVMS,