Data Portability - Chapter 1

JPEG

• Joint Photographic Expert Group

• Joint Picture Encoding Group

• Java Photographic Encoding

• Joint Photographic Encoding Group

CSV

• Comma Separated Value

• Character Separated Value

• Comma Separated Variable

• Comma Separated Vector

PNG

• Portable Network Graphics

• Personal Network Gateway

• Photo Network Graphics

• Portable Network Gateway

GIF

• Graphics Interchange Format

• General Image Format

• Graphical Interface File

• Graphics Information File

TXT

• Text Document

• Text File

• Text Format

• Text Template

MPEG

• Moving Picture Expert Group

• Media Playback Enhancement Group

• Multi-Purpose Encoding Group

• Motion Picture Encoding Group

Lossless compression

• Maintains quality - no colours/data lost

• Reduces file size by removing some data

• Increases the quality of the original data

• Compresses data but may lose some quality

TIFF

• Tagged Image File Format

• Text Image File Format

• Transparent Image File Format

• Time Image File Format

Lossy compression

• Reduce file size by taking out some colour

• Maintain original quality without any loss

• Compress files without changing their format

• Increase file size for better quality

MIDI

• Musical Instrument Digital Interface

• Musical Interactive Digital Interface

• Musical Instrument Data Interface

• Musical Information Digital Interface