The XBUP Project is an attempt to design unified general binary data format and to provide an open-source libraries and tools for it.
This should provide following advantages:
Advanced Data Structures - Unified structure should allow to combine various types of data together
Flexibility - General framework should provide data transformations/processing and compatibility issues solving capability
Comprehensibility - Catalog of data types, metadata, relations and abstraction should allow better understanding of data
Efficiency - Optional compression and encryption on multiple levels should allow effective representation of binary data
Free and open source prototype implementation in Java is currently underway. More in development section.
About the XBUP project