Open format

An accessible book architecture is a appear blueprint for autumn agenda data, usually maintained by a standards organization, which can accordingly be acclimated and implemented by anyone. For example, an accessible architecture can be implementable by both proprietary and chargeless and accessible antecedent software, application the typicalcomputer application licenses acclimated by each. In adverse to accessible formats, bankrupt formats are advised barter secrets. Accessible formats are additionally alleged chargeless book formats if they are not burdened by any copyrights, patents, trademarks or added restrictions (for example, if they are in the accessible domain) so that anyone may use it at no budgetary amount for any adapted purpose.1

Specific definitions

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems defines the belief for accessible formats as follows:2

The architecture is based on an basal accessible standard

The architecture is developed through a about visible, association apprenticed process

The architecture is affirmed and maintained by a vendor-independent standards organization

The architecture is absolutely accurate and about available

The architecture does not accommodate proprietary extensions

edit US government

Within the framework of Accessible Government Initiative, the federal government of the United States adopted the Accessible Government Directive, according to which: "An accessible architecture is one that is belvedere independent, apparatus readable, and fabricated accessible to the accessible after restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information".3

edit State of Minnesota

The State of Minnesota defines the belief for open, XML-based book formats as follows:4

The architecture is interoperable amid assorted centralized and alien platforms and applications

The architecture is absolutely appear and accessible royalty-free

The architecture is implemented by assorted vendors

The architecture is controlled by an accessible industry alignment with a categorical across-the-board action for change of the standard

edit Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts "defines accessible formats as blueprint for abstracts book formats that are based on an basal accessible standard, developed by an accessible community, affirmed and maintained by a standards anatomy and are absolutely accurate and about available."5

The Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) classifies four formats as "Open Formats":

OASIS Accessible Document Architecture For Office Applications (OpenDocument) v. 1.1

Ecma-376 Office Accessible XML Formats (Open XML)

Hypertext Document Architecture v. 4.01

Plain Text Format

edit The Linux Information Project

According to The Linux Information Project, the appellation accessible architecture should accredit to "any architecture that is appear for anyone to apprehend and abstraction but which may or may not be burdened by patents, copyrights or added restrictions on use".1 - as against to a chargeless architecture which is not burdened by any copyrights, patents, trademarks or added restrictio

Multimedia

ALAC — lossless audio codec, ahead a proprietary architecture of Apple Inc.

CMML — timed metadata and subtitles

DAISY Digital Talking Book — a talking book format

FLAC — lossless audio codec

JPEG 2000 — an angel architecture connected by ISO/IEC

Matroska (mkv) — alembic for all blazon of multimedia formats (audio, video, images, subtitles)

MNG — affective pictures, based on PNG

Musepack — an audio codec

Ogg — alembic for Vorbis, FLAC, Speex (audio formats) & Theora (a video format)

PNG — a raster angel architecture connected by ISO/IEC

SMIL — a media playlisting architecture and multimedia affiliation language67

Speex — accent codec

SVG — a agent angel architecture connected by W3C

VRML/X3D — realtime 3D abstracts formats connected by ISO/IEC

WavPack — "Hybrid" (lossless/lossy) audio codec

WebM — a video/audio format

XSPF — a playlist architecture for multimedia

Text

ASCII — a apparent argument file

DVI — accessory absolute (TeX)

ePub — accessible e-book accepted by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)

LaTeX — certificate markup language

Office Accessible XML — a formatted argument architecture (ISO/IEC 29500:2008);8 see Licensing for details

OpenDocument — a formatted argument architecture (ISO/IEC 26300:2006).9

OpenXPS — accessible accepted for a folio description accent and a fixed-document format

PDF — accessible accepted for abstracts barter (ISO 15930-1:2001, ISO 19005-1:2005, ISO 32000-1:2008). PDF started out a proprietary standard, but was after submitted through standardization

PostScript — a folio description accent and programming language. PostScript started out as a proprietary standard, but was after submitted through standardization

Rich Argument Architecture — a formatted argument architecture (proprietary,1011 appear specification, authentic and maintained alone by Microsoft)

Unicode — a argument appearance format

UTF-8 — argument encoding with abutment for all accepted languages and scripts

Archiving and compression

7z — for archiving and/or compression

bzip2 — for compression

gzip — for compression

MAFF — for web folio archiving, based on ZIP

PAQ — for compression

SQX — for archiving and/or compression

tar — for archiving

xz — for compression

ZIP — for archiving and/or compression; the abject architecture is in the accessible domain, but newer versions accept some patented features121314

edit Other

CSS — appearance area architecture usually acclimated with (X)HTML, connected by W3C

CSV — breach afar values, frequently acclimated for spreadsheets or simple databases

DjVu — book architecture for scanned images or documents

EAS3 — bifold book architecture for amphibian point data

ELF — Executable and Linkable Format

FreeOTFE — alembic for encrypted data

Hierarchical Abstracts Architecture — multi-platform abstracts architecture for autumn multidimensional arrays, amid added abstracts structures

HTML/XHTML — markup accent for web pages (ISO/IEC 15445:2000)

iCalendar — agenda abstracts format

JSON — article notation, subset of YAML and actual ECMAScript statement

LTFS — Linear Tape Book System

NetCDF — for accurate data

NZB — for multipart bifold files on Usenet

PHP — scripting and markup accent for web development

RSS — syndication

SDXF — the Structured Abstracts eXchange Format

SFV — checksum format

TrueCrypt — alembic for encrypted data

WebDAV — Internet filesystem format

XML — a general-purpose markup language, connected by W3C15

YAML — animal clear abstracts serialization format