Template:FormatInfo

File Format
Name	FormatInfo
Ontology	Electronic File Formats FormatInfo

Usage

{{FormatInfo
| name             = 
| formattype       = 
| subcat           = 
| subcat2          = 
| subcat3          = 
| subcat4          = 
| subcat5          = 
| thiscat          = 
| extensions       = 
| mimetypes        = 
| locfdd           = 
| fourccs          =
| pronom           =
| type code        =
| uniform type     =
| wikidata         =
| compression      =
| extended from    =
| extended to      =
| magic            =
| kaitai struct    =
| spec             =
| spec availability=
| reference impl   =
| conforms to      = 
| charset          =
| charsetaliases   =
| codepage         =
| mibenum          =
| cfstringencoding =
| nsstringencoding =
| endianness       =
| tpm              =
| error resilience =
| patent license   =
| developed by     =
| maintained by    =
| released         =
| image            =
| caption          =
}}

Parameters

name

(optional) The name of the file format. Default: {{PAGENAME}}

formattype

(optional) The type of the file format. Choose 'electronic', 'physical', or 'organic', or specify your own. Default: electronic

subcat

(optional) The subcategory of the file format.

subcat2

(optional) An additional subcategory of the file format.

subcat3

(optional) An additional subcategory of the file format.

subcat4

(optional) An additional subcategory of the file format.

subcat5

(optional) An additional subcategory of the file format.

thiscat

(optional) Special parameter for indicating ontology of a non-terminal subcategory page.

extensions

(optional) The format's known filename extensions. Use {{ext}}, or {{Noext}} if it is known to be extensionless.

mimetypes

(optional) The MIME type of the format. Use {{mimetype}}.

locfdd

(optional) Identifier for this format from the Library of Congress Sustainability of Digital Formats, e.g. "fdd000314". Use {{LoCFDD}}.

fourccs

(optional) FourCC code

pronom

(optional) The PRONOM ID of the format, e.g. "fmt/45". Use {{PRONOM}}.

type code

(optional) The Type Code of the file, used by Mac OS Classic. Use {{Type Code}}.

uniform type

(optional) The Uniform Type Identifier (UTI), used by Mac OS X and iOS. Use {{UTI}}.

wikidata

(optional) Wikidata title ID. Use {{wikidata}}.

compression

Types of compression. Whether Lossy, Lossless, or Both, and whether Optional or Always compressed. i.e. JPEG is Always Lossy.

extended from

Any formats this one was based upon.

extended to

Any formats that have been derived from this one.

magic

A sequence of byte values that can be used to identify the file contents, usually located close to the start of the file.

kaitai struct

(optional) An identifier of a format at Kaitai Struct project, e.g. "ico" would result in a link to http://formats.kaitai.io/ico/index.html generated.

spec

URL of the format specification.

spec availability

Type of availability the specification, e.g. commercial, free.

reference impl

Link to page about the reference implementation of this format, if any.

conforms to

(optional) The UTI of the parent format in the conformance hierarchy.

charset

(optional) For character encodings: IANA charset parameter value.

charsetaliases

(optional) For character encodings: Variant IANA charset parameter values.

codepage

(optional) For character encodings: Code page number (IBM/MS).

mibenum

(optional) For character encodings: IANA MIBenum.

cfstringencoding

(optional) For character encodings: CFStringEncoding.

nsstringencoding

(optional) For character encodings: NSStringEncoding.

endianness

Big-endian or Little-endian byte ordering.

tpm

Technical Protection Mechanisms supported by the format, e.g. encryption.

error resilience

Is this format able to detect damage or recover from damage to the bitstream.

patent license

Unknown, Disputed, Encumbered, (F)RAND, Royalty-Free, Unencumbered.

developed by

Who developed the format.

maintained by

Who now maintains the format.

released

(optional) The date the format was publicly released.

image

(optional) Illustration to show in infobox.

caption

(optional) Caption for image

Potential Parameters

This is a list of parameters that could be included in this template.

mime & mime aliases

Split mimetypes into primary type and known aliases.

version

The version of the format, e.g. "1.4" for PDF 1.4

previous version

Link to page about the previous version of this format.

next version

Link to page about the next version of this format.

back compat

Whether this version is backwards compatible with the previous version.

wikipedia

Name of the Wikipedia page that describes this format, e.g. "JPEG 2000" will be rendered as JPEG 2000

container for

A list of formats this format can contain.

contained by

A list of formats that may contain this format.

embeddable metadata

Kinds of metadata that can be embedded in this format.

dependencies

External resources that files in this format may depend upon, e.g. fonts, or even hardware.

namespace

The namespace-uri that defines the file format if it is XML-based.