Electronic File Formats

Formats based on electronic/online media.


 * 3D and CAD/CAM Models
 * Address books and contacts
 * Archiving
 * Audio and Music
 * Bibliographic data - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
 * Binary Data (any binary formats that didn't fit in other categories)
 * Calendars
 * Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
 * Character Encodings - Character encodings map binary data onto written characters.
 * Compression
 * Currency - electronic currencies (e.g., Bitcoin)
 * Databases
 * Development
 * Disk Image Formats (or tape image, etc.; images of data as stored on physical media)
 * Diskmagazines
 * Distributed computing projects (volunteer and grid computing)
 * Document - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
 * E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums (includes various other sorts of messaging, BBSs, social networking, etc.)
 * 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
 * File transfer
 * Finance and Accounting
 * Firmware (low-level system files/data/programs)
 * Fonts
 * Genealogical data
 * Geospatial
 * Game data files
 * Graphics
 * Help files
 * HyperMedia (self-contained files that combine text, graphics, audio, video, and executable code)
 * Interactive Fiction
 * Machine Embroidery
 * Markup
 * Metadata
 * 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
 * Telephony
 * Temporary files
 * Text-based data (any text-based formats that didn't fit in other categories)
 * Video
 * Web