Baseprints Interoperability Forum

This website and associated GitHub repository are for sharing information about Baseprint open formats. The goal is to assist users and developers in assessing the interoperability between applications that read or write in a Baseprint format.

Baseprint Feature D's

The GitHub Discussions category Baseprint Feature D's is available to facilitate discussions, decisions, proposals, definitions, etc... that focus on specific features of a Baseprint format.

Snapshots vs. Successions

Baseprint Document Format (BDF) is the digital encoding format for Baseprint document snapshots, which can be redistributed and archived through various mechanisms. Some preprint servers could archive Baseprint document snapshots in a centralized approach. Alternatively, Baseprint document snapshots can be redistributed and archived in a distributed approach as Baseprint document successions.

History

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