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== Formats that describe other formats ==
 
== Formats that describe other formats ==
 
* [[BFD]] (Binary Format Description)
 
* [[BFD]] (Binary Format Description)
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* [[CSV Dialect Description Format]] (describes details of features differing between [[CSV]] varieties)
 
* [[CSV Schema]] (describes format of [[CSV]] file)
 
* [[CSV Schema]] (describes format of [[CSV]] file)
 
* [[Citation Style Language]] (describes bibliographic citation formats)
 
* [[Citation Style Language]] (describes bibliographic citation formats)

Revision as of 12:02, 16 July 2014

File Format
Name Metaformats
Ontology

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A metaformat (or meta format) is a generic low-level file format used as a basis for defining high-level file formats.

Whether a format is a metaformat is ultimately a judgment call. There are no definitive answers to questions like: What is the difference between a container format and a metaformat? Or a serialization format and a metaformat? Is CSV a metaformat, or is it a database or a spreadsheet format? Should TIFF and PDF be considered to be metaformats, given all the subformats of them that have been defined?

Another reasonable, but different, definition of metaformat is "a format that describes other formats".

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