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===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Extra_Information|Digital Formats Extra Information]]===
 
===[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Extra_Information|Digital Formats Extra Information]]===
 
Click on the heading above.
 
Click on the heading above.
==<font color="red">Common Closed Digital Formats (To be avoided at all costs)</font>==
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==[[SUNScholar/Digitisation/Digital Formats/Closed|Closed Formats]]==
Please check the following websites for more information about using open digital format standards and the movement to support this:
 
*http://defendinnovation.org
 
*http://patentabsurdity.com
 
*http://en.swpat.org
 
===Documents===
 
All the Microsoft document formats are closed.
 
 
 
'''This is a huge problem for [[SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation|digital preservation]].'''
 
* http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Office_Open_XML_and_OpenDocument
 
 
 
===Multimedia===
 
All the Microsoft media formats are closed.
 
 
 
'''This is a huge problem for [[SUNScholar/Digital_Preservation|digital preservation]].'''
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video
 
===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)
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding (Lossy audio codec, many patent trolls)
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg4 (Lossy video codec, many patent trolls)
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg (Lossy image codec, many patent trolls)
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format (Lossless image codec, many patent trolls)
 
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video (Closed format multimedia container, many patent trolls)
 
  
 
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