Portable data format

Portable Content Format

The DVB's Portable Content Format (PCF) is a data format for the description of interactive digital television (iTV) services. It is intended to support the businessto-business interchange of interactive content and to enable deployment on multiple target platforms with a minimum amount of re-authoring. This will reduce both the production cost and time to air of iTV services. White Papers are ...

An XML portable chart format

The clinical chart remains the fundamental record of outpatient clinical care. As this information migrates to electronic form, there is an opportunity to create standard formats for transmitting these charts. This paper describes work toward a Portable Chart Format (PCF) that can represent the relevant aspects of an outpatient chart. The main goal of the format is to provide a packaging medium...

Portable Document Format (PDF) Registry

GML: A portable Graph File Format

GML, the G>raph Modelling Language, is our proposal for a portable file format for graphs. GML's key features are portability, simple syntax, extensibility and flexibility. A GML file consists of a hierarchical key-value lists. Graphs can be annotated with arbitrary data structures. The idea for a common file format was born at the GD'95; this proposal is the outcome of many discussions. GML is...

Information Extraction Tools for Portable Document Format

Interest in the new publishing phenomenon known as e-book has grown enormously in last few years. There are now at least 150 companies involved in various ways in the development of e-books. Despite this involvement the spread of e-books has not yet useful in implementation of digital libraries. The use of e-books of PDF format in the implementation of digital library requires a robust informat...