The Public Record Office in Victoria (PROV) on Tuesday unveiled a digital archive of government documents dating back almost 200 years, with the project using 'open' formats to store data and ...

Open table formats have emerged as an indispensable component of the modern data lakehouse, which melds characteristics of data lakes and data warehouses into a single entity in support of customers’ ...

The easiest way to think about an open data architecture is that it’s the opposite of a vendor-locked-in, closed-system environment. A system designed with open data architectural principles supports ...

Microsoft has pledged to support the ODF file format as well as Adobe's PDF file format in forthcoming versions of it's Office suite expected in the first half of 2009. While this is good news for ...

The Danish Parliament has decided on a set of rules to which open document formats must adhere if they are to be used by state authorities after April 1, 2011, Denmark’s Liberal Party said on ...

Google's research team has developed and released open source Magika , a tool that leverages the power of AI to quickly and efficiently identify file formats. Magika detects binary and text ...

After reading some of the material about Office file formats on the Microsoft interoperability site and a little of the open protocol material on MSDN, I wonder whether releasing 30K pages of such ...

The next version of Office will fully support two new file formats, Strict Open XML and Open Document Format 1.2, Microsoft has announced. In a blog post on Monday, Office standards chief Jim ...

Thankfully, digital publication doesn't have to mean proprietary formats and DRM-laden files. If you want to delve into the world of e-book creation, you should check out Sigil. It's a cross-platform ...