Electronic File Formats

Revision as of 14:00, 2 December 2012

Formats based on electronic/online media.

• 3D and CAD/CAM Models
• Accounting
• Address books and contacts
• Archiving
• Audio and Music
• Bibliographic data - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
• Calendars
• Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
• Character Encodings - Character encodings map binary data onto written characters.
• Compression
• Database
• Development
• Disk Image Formats
• Diskmagazines
• Document - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
• E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
• Electronic Publishing formats
• Error correction
• Encryption
• Executables
• Filesystem - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
• Firmware (low-level system files/data/programs)
• Fonts
• Genealogical data
• Geospatial
• Game data files
• Graphics
• Help files
• Interactive Fiction
• Machine Embroidery
• Mind maps, Topic maps etc
• Page description languages as used in print preprocessing
• Personal Digital Assistant formats
• ROM and memory images
• Saved Games
• Scientific Data formats and mathematics related formats
• Security
• Serialization
• Source code
• Text-based data
• Video
• Web

Temporary Categories

As the ontology grows quickly, some formats and concepts of formats are harder to easily classify - they'll temporarily be here during a quick debate.

• Binary Data (<- Move some or all of these to other categories)