Open format

Advanced Forensic Format: An Open, Extensible Format for Disk Imaging

This paper describes the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), which is designed as an alternative to current proprietary disk image formats. AFF offers two significant benefits. First, it is more flexible because it allows extensive metadata to be stored with images. Second, AFF images consume less disk space than images in other formats (e.g., EnCase images). This paper also describes the Advanced ...

The MPEG Open Access Application Format

For many years, the creation and dissemination of freely distributable digital content has been growing remarkably. Ideas emerging from the Open Source Initiative and elsewhere have helped create the concept of open content, which is analogous to open source software. Open content is not limited to a specific content type. It can be any creative work that allows for the free distribution and mo...

The Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF) Comes of Age

This paper summarizes the current status of version 2 of the Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF). As a natural extension of the OLIF prototype (OLIF version 1), version 2 has been modified with respect to content and formalization (e.g., it is now XMLcompliant). These enhancements now make it possible to use OLIF in a variety of Natural Language Processing applications and general language t...

AFF: An Open Extensible Format for Disk Imaging

MGFp: an open Mascot Generic Format parser library implementation.

Despite the efforts of the mass spectrometry (MS) community to migrate data representation toward modern file formats, legacy text formats still play an important role in MS data processing workflows. We provide a formal grammar and a portable, efficient C++ implementation for a Mascot Generic Format (MGF) parser. Software and technical documentation are available from http://software.steenlab....