Editing COLLADA (section)

==History==
Originally created at [[Sony Computer Entertainment]] by Rémi Arnaud and Mark C. Barnes,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=2876|title=COLLADA Sailing the Gulf of 3D Digital Content Creation|date=December 2006|access-date=2006-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919204317/https://akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=2876|archive-date=2010-09-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> it has since become the property of the [[Khronos Group]], a member-funded industry consortium, which now shares the copyright with Sony. The COLLADA schema and specification are freely available from the Khronos Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/COLLADA_FAQ#Is_COLLADA_Open_Source.3F|title=COLLADA FAQ|date=August 2011}}</ref> The COLLADA DOM uses the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320123355/http://research.scea.com/scea_shared_source_license.html SCEA Shared Source License 1.0].

Several graphics companies collaborated with [[Sony]] from COLLADA's beginnings to create a tool that would be useful to the widest possible audience, and COLLADA continues to evolve through the efforts of Khronos contributors. Early collaborators included [[Alias Systems Corporation]], [[Criterion Software]], [[Autodesk|Autodesk, Inc.]], and [[Avid Technology]]. Dozens{{Quantify|date=August 2011}} of commercial game studios and [[game engines]] have adopted the standard.

In March 2011, Khronos released<ref>[http://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-releases-free-collada-conformance-test-suite Khronos Group Releases Free COLLADA Conformance Test Suite]</ref> the COLLADA Conformance Test Suite (CTS). The suite allows applications that import and export COLLADA to test against a large suite of examples, ensuring that they conform properly to the specification. In July 2012, the CTS software was released on [[GitHub]],<ref>[http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/opencollada-and-collada-cts-now-on-github OpenCOLLADA and COLLADA CTS now on GitHub]</ref> allowing for community contributions.

ISO/PAS 17506:2012 ''Industrial automation systems and integration -- COLLADA digital asset schema specification for 3D visualization of industrial data'' was published in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/collada-becomes-iso-standard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928150708/http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/collada-becomes-iso-standard|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2018|title=COLLADA becomes ISO standard, what does industry think?|date=March 29, 2013}}</ref>