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title: "Lance Format (@lance-format)"
description: "The Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI"
account: "lance-format"
---

# Lance Format

The Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI

## APIs

1 public API with a stored document.
Each links to its markdown overview; the same address with
`/llms.txt` in place of `.md` lists its operations.
Changes across these APIs: https://skmtc.dev/lance-format/feed.md

- [Lance Namespace Specification](https://skmtc.dev/lance-format/apis/lance-namespace-specification.md): Namespaces and tables: create, register and version datasets, plus insert, update, delete and query rows