CBOR

English

Etymology

Sometimes interpreted as a backronym formed from the author's name, Professor Carsten Bormann.

Proper noun

CBOR

1. (file format) Initialism of concise binary object representation: a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON.

   Coordinate term: JSON

   • 2018, Giancarlo Fortino, Carlos E. Palau, Antonio Guerrieri, Nora Cuppens, Frédéric Cuppens, Hakima Chaouchi, Alban Gabillon, Interoperability, Safety and Security in IoT: Third International Conference, InterIoT 2017, and Fourth International Conference, SaSeIot 2017, Valencia, Spain, November 6-7, 2017, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 125:

     Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a lightweight encoding scheme with support for binary data. CBOR is designed to be extremely lightweight in terms of code and message sizes. CBOR is based on JSON and fully supports the JSON syntax and data types.

Further reading

• CBOR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• COBR, RBOC, corb