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<html><head><title>The Treaty of Babel: A Standard for IF Bibliography</title>
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<h2>The Treaty of Babel: Software and a standard for IF bibliography</h2>
<p>Since the 1980s, writers of interactive fiction have used a
variety of programs to create new works. Some were
in-house tools used by commercial IF production houses, but from
around 1990 IF has been written by a diverse Internet community, using
tools written, tested and evolved within the community.
With few exceptions,
the virtual machines used by different design systems have been
mutually incompatible.
Although a number of multi-format interpreters
have been written, and the IF community prefers a format-independent
approach to reviewing and discussing works of IF, few tools exist
(as of the start of 2006) which treat all formats equally.</p>
<p>The Treaty is an agreement between active design systems, the
IF-archive and other interested parties. It provides for:
</p>
<ul>
<li>ISBN-like unique ID numbers for story files, old and new,
produced by commercial or non-commercial compilers living
and dead;
<li>a standard format for cover art and bibliographic data;
<li>a web server able to provide these for a given ID number;
<li>a command-line tool able to identify and extract data from
story files in any format;
<li>reference software providing a format-neutral API for reading
story files, and removing “wrappers”.
</ul>
<p>The aim of the treaty, and of the Babel software, is to make it much
easier to write new tools for players in which the distinction of which
design system created which story file is much less visible.
</p>
<p>This is the home page of the Treaty of Babel.</p>
<ul><li><a href="babel.html">Read the full text of the Treaty of Babel (revision 12)</a>
(also <a href="babel.md">Markdown</a>)
<li><a href="changes.txt">See the revision history of the Treaty</a>
<li><a href="https://github.com/iftechfoundation/ifarchive-if-specs">Go to the version control repository which includes the Treaty document</a>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/babel-if">Join the Babel-IF mailing list</a>
<li><a href="https://github.com/iftechfoundation/babel-tool">Get the babel software suite</a> (or <a href="/downloads/babel-0.7.zip">download the source</a>)
<li><a href="screenshots.html">See Treaty features in action</a>
<li><a href="infocom.html">Find out how to enhance your legacy game collection with Treaty of Babel functionality</a>
</ul>
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<p>
Unless otherwise noted, the text and contents of this web site are
copyright 2006-2024 by the
<a href="https://iftechfoundation.org/">Interactive Fiction Technology
Foundation</a>.
Unless otherwise noted, this material is licenced
under a
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.
You are free to share and adapt this material for noncommercial purposes,
as long as you provide attribution, indicate if changes were made,
and make the result available under the same license.
</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><small>
26 April 2006
(updated 16 October 2024)<br>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">L. Ross Raszewski</a>, for <a href="https://github.com/iftechfoundation/babel-tool">Babel</a><br>
Andrew Plotkin, David Kinder and Paul Mazaitis, for <a href="https://ifarchive.org">the IF Archive</a><br>
Graham Nelson, for <a href="http://inform7.com/">Inform</a><br>
Mike Roberts, for <a href="https://www.tads.org/">TADS</a><br>
Kent Tessman, for <a href="https://www.generalcoffee.com/">Hugo</a><br>
Campbell Wild, for <a href="http://www.adrift.co/">ADRIFT</a><br>
Chris Klimas, for <a href="https://twinery.org/">Twine</a><br>
Thomas Nilefalk, for <a href="https://www.alanif.se/">Alan</a><br>
Andrew Plotkin, for <a href="https://eblong.com/zarf/blorb/">Blorb</a><br>
Andrew Hunter, for <a href="http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/unix/zoom/">the Zoom interpreter</a><br>
David Kinder, for <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/davidk.kinder/frotz.html">the Windows Frotz interpreter</a><br>
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