Some institutions adopt another term, standard file formats, to differentiate accepted and
recommended file formats from others. According to the DAVID project, “standard file formats
owe their status to (official) initiatives for standardizing or to their widespread use.”17 Standard
may be too general to specify the elements of file formats. However, there is a recognition that
only those file formats accepted and recommended by national or international standard
organizations (such as the International Standardization Organization [ISO], International
Industry Imaging Association [I3A], WWW Consortium, etc.) are genuine standard file formats