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Everything about Open file format
Published specification for storing digital data
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. An open file format is licensed with an open license. For example, an open format can be implemented by both proprietary and free and open-source software, using the typical software licenses used by each. In contrast to open file formats, closed file formats are considered trade secrets. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Open file formatA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: mzapy: An Open-Source Python Library Enabling Efficient Extraction and Processing of Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry Data in the MZA File FormatInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: iText in actionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Photon-HDF5: An Open File Format for Timestamp-Based Single-Molecule Fluorescence ExperimentsCited 62 times
- Go sideways: Open standardA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Office Open XMLA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Photon-HDF5: An Open File Format for Timestamp-Based Single-Molecule Fluorescence Experiments
F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
H5OINA: The Latest Updates to Oxford Instruments’ Open-Source File Format
The evolution of an open source file format: a version control story
Photon-HDF5: An Open File Format for Timestamp-Based Single-Molecule Fluorescence Data
Open File Format for Thermal Simulation
ONDE (Open Non Destructive Examination) file format – technical choices
Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
iText in actionBruno Lowagie · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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