AMICO Technology Committee: Technical Formats in Use by AMICO Members

PRELIMINARY SURVEY

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Media Type	File Format	File Extension	Members Usage	Resources
Image	Tagged Image File Format	.TIF	for main image contributed to AMICO	http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/TIFF6.pdf http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html
	Joint Photographic Experts Group File Format (JFIF / JPEG)	. JPG	for web views and thumbnails	http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeghomepage.htm
	JPEG File Interchange Format	.JFIF	for web views and thumbnails	http://www.jpeg.org/public/jfif.pdf
	Graphic File Format	.GIF	for alternate views and thumbnails	http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html http://chesworth.com/PV/file_format/
	Flashpix	.fpx	for zoomable images	http://www.digitalimaging.org/
	Portable Network Graphics	.PNG	for web images	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/
	multi-tresolution seamless image database	.SID	for zoomable web-delivered images	http://www.lizardtech.com/products/mrsid.html
	For general information on file formats see: Graphics File Formats FAQ
Text	Hypertext Markup Language	.HTML	for related textual documents and web delivery of catalog records	http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
	Portable Document Format	.PDF	for page images and searchable text of related textual documents	http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html
	Extensible Markup Language	.XML	for related textual documents and web delivery	http://www.w3.org/XML/ http://www.gca.org/whats_xml/default.htm
	Standard Generalized Markup Language	.SGML	for related textual documents	http://www.gca.org/whats_xml/default.htm http://www.gca.org/whats_sgml/default.htm
	Rich Text Format	.RTF	for related textual documents	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/specs/rtfspec.htm
	Tagged Image File Format	.TIF	for page images	http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d-hi.html http://chesworth.com/PV/file_format/
Sound	QuickTime	.mov	often with captioning for hearing-impaired	http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/quicktime.html
	WAVE	.wav	for audio files	http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cm497/wave.htm
	Real Audio	.ram	for audio files	http://service.real.com/help/library/blueprints.html
	MP3	.mp3	for audio files	http://help.mp3.com/help/category/aboutmp3s.html
Video	QuickTime	.mov	often with captioning to enable pan and zoom	http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/quicktime.html See online discussion of use at AIC
	Real Video	Ram	for linked video	http://service.real.com/help/library/blueprints.html
	Motion Picture Experts Group MPEG	.mpg	for linked multimedia/video	MPEG.2 and MPEG.3 http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/
Composite forms	HyperText Markup Language HTML pages	.HTM .html	with links to all of the above	http://www.w3.org/Markup/
	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language	.smil		http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/
	Resource Interchange File Format	.RIFF	to chunk data with WAVE files	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/multimed/mmio_2uyb.htm
Virtual reality	Flash		for animation	http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
	QT-VR		for 3-d visualization	http://www.letmedoit.com/qtvr/qtvr_online/course_index.html

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