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| − | ==Digital Format Registry==
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| − | * http://www.udfr.org
| + | '''[[SUNScholar/Digitisation|Back to Digitisation]]''' |
| − | * http://www.gdfr.info
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| − | ==Types of digital formats and codecs== | + | ===Introduction=== |
| − | * For documents refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenDocument_software and http://www.pdfa.org. | + | *http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson |
| − | * For audio refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec
| + | ===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Open|Open Formats]]=== |
| − | * For video refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_codecs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)
| + | ===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Closed|Closed Formats]]=== |
| − | * For images refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_image
| + | ===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Other|Reference]]=== |
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| − | ==Common Closed Digital Formats== | + | ===Software=== |
| − | See: http://patentabsurdity.com and http://en.swpat.org
| + | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFF |
| − | ===Documents===
| + | *http://www.preforma-project.eu |
| − | All the Microsoft document formats are closed.
| + | *http://www.xnview.com |
| | + | *http://www.mirovideoconverter.com |
| | + | *https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/home |
| | + | *http://jhove.openpreservation.org |
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| − | This is a huge problem for [[SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation|digital preservation]].
| + | ===News=== |
| − | * http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml
| + | *http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2016/01/odf-the-open-document-format |
| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Office_Open_XML_and_OpenDocument
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| − | ===Multimedia===
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| − | All the Microsoft media formats are closed.
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| − | This is a huge problem for [[SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation|digital preservation]].
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video
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| − | ===Other closed media formats=== | |
| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_formats_closed_by_software_patents | |
| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3 (Lossy audio codec, many patent trolls)
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding (Lossy audio codec, many patent trolls)
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg4 (Lossy video codec, many patent trolls)
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg (Lossy image codec, many patent trolls)
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format (Lossless image codec, many patent trolls)
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| − | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video (Closed format multimedia container, many patent trolls)
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| − | ===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Extra_Information|Digital Formats Extra Information]]===
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| − | '''[[SUNScholar/Digital Preservation/Electronic Archives Preservation Policy/Preservable Digital Objects|Back to Digital Objects]]'''
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