Open file format, the Glossary
An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone.[1]
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42 relations: C (programming language), Codec, CSS, Data (computer science), Data compression, Embrace, extend, and extinguish, Federal government of the United States, File format, FLAC, Free content, Free license, Free software, Gzip, HTML, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization, List of open-source codecs, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Network effect, Office Open XML, Open educational resources, Open Government Initiative, Open source, Open standard, Open system (computing), Open-source software, OpenDocument, Openness, PDF, Plain text, PNG, Proprietary file format, Proprietary software, Raster graphics, Software license, Specification (technical standard), Standards organization, Sun Microsystems, Vendor lock-in, WebM, World Wide Web Consortium.
C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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Codec
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.
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CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for specifying the presentation and styling of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML).
Data (computer science)
In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data.
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Data compression
In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
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Embrace, extend, and extinguish
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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File format
A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Open file format and file format are computer file formats.
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FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.
Free content
Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use.
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Free license
A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed.
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Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Gzip
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
International Electrotechnical Commission
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology".
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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List of open-source codecs
This is a listing of open-source codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Network effect
In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products.
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Office Open XML
Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376. ISO and IEC standardized later versions as ISO/IEC 29500. Open file format and Office Open XML are computer file formats.
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Open educational resources
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify.
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Open Government Initiative
The Open Government Initiative is an effort by the administration of President of the United States Barack Obama to " an unprecedented level of openness in Government." The directive starting this initiative was issued on January 20, 2009, Obama's first day in office.
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Open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.
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Open standard
An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. Open file format and open standard are open standards.
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Open system (computing)
Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, portability, and open software standards. Open file format and open system (computing) are open standards.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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OpenDocument
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. Open file format and OpenDocument are computer file formats and open standards.
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Openness
Openness is an overarching concept that is characterized by an emphasis on transparency and collaboration.
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Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Plain text
In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.
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PNG
Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.
Proprietary file format
A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, designed by the company or organization to be secret, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily accomplished only with particular software or hardware that the company itself has developed. Open file format and proprietary file format are computer file formats.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
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Raster graphics
smiley face in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Enlarging further, each pixel can be analyzed, with their colors constructed through combination of the values for red, green and blue. In computer graphics and digital photography, a raster graphic represents a two-dimensional picture as a rectangular matrix or grid of pixels, viewable via a computer display, paper, or other display medium.
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Software license
A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.
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Specification (technical standard)
A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.
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Standards organization
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards to those who employ them.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.
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Vendor lock-in
In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.
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WebM
WebM is an audiovisual media file format.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_file_format
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