Open format

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An open format is a published specification for storing digital data, usually maintained by a standards organization, which basically can be used and implemented by anyone. For example, an open format can be implementable by both proprietary and free and open source software, using the typical licenses used by each. In contrast to open formats, proprietary formats are controlled and defined by private interests.

Contents 1 Examples of open formats 1.1 Multimedia 1.2 Text 1.3 Other 2 See also

[edit] Examples of open formats

[edit] Multimedia

• JPEG – an image format standardized by ISO/IEC
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics) – a raster image format standardized by ISO/IEC
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) – a vector image format standardized by W3C
• VRML/[[X3D – realtime 3D data formats standardized by ISO/IEC
• Ogg, container for Vorbis, FLAC, Speex (audio formats) & Theora (a video format)
• mkv (Matroska), container for all type of multimedia formats (audio, video, images, subtitles)

[edit] Text

• HTML/XHTML – a markup language standardized by W3C
• ODF (OpenDocument) – a suite of office document formats standardized by OASIS and ISO/IEC
• PDF – a document image format standardized by ISO

[edit] Other

• XML – a markup language standardized by W3C

[edit] See also