Electronic File Formats

Formats based on electronic/online media. (Wikidata: )


 * 3D and CAD/CAM Models
 * Address books and contacts
 * Agriculture
 * Annotation
 * Archiving
 * Audio and Music
 * Backup
 * Bibliographic data - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
 * Calendars
 * Cameras and Digital Image Sensors
 * Character encoding - Character encodings map binary data onto written characters.
 * Compression
 * Configuration files
 * Coupons and Tickets
 * Culinary arts - file formats related to cooking, baking, frying, broiling... Yum!
 * Currency - electronic currencies (e.g., Bitcoin). Also some systems for transferring funds in various currencies.
 * Databases
 * Data type
 * Development
 * Diagramming and flowcharting
 * 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
 * Education
 * Electronic Publishing formats (e-books)
 * Elements of File Formats
 * E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums (includes various other sorts of messaging, BBSs, social networking, etc.)
 * Encryption (including ransomware and ways to decrypt it)
 * Engineering
 * Enterprise software (ERP, CRM, and the rest of the buzzword initialism soup)
 * Error codes and messages
 * Error detection and correction
 * Executables
 * Fictional file formats
 * Filesystem - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
 * File transfer
 * Finance and Accounting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuYfScGpbE
 * Firmware (low-level system files/data/programs)
 * Fonts
 * Forensics and Law Enforcement (Forensics mean that detectives use it when they need computer or cellphone or cloud data, like a hacking case, or when they need to extract locations from a murderer, or the motives of a terrorist)
 * Game data files
 * Genealogical data
 * Geospatial
 * Graphics
 * Health and Medicine
 * Help files
 * Hypermedia (self-contained files that combine text, graphics, audio, video, and executable code)
 * Industrial
 * Interactive Fiction
 * Internet
 * Law (legislation, litigation, lawyer stuff, etc.)
 * Machine Embroidery
 * Markup
 * Metadata
 * Metaformats
 * Military
 * Mind maps, Topic maps, etc.
 * Miscellaneous File Formats
 * Networking
 * News media (formats used in journalism and news publishing)
 * Page description languages as used in print preprocessing
 * Performing Arts
 * Personal Digital Assistant formats
 * Politics
 * Project management
 * Protocols
 * Puzzles (crossword, sudoku, jigsaw... any sort of brain-teaser)
 * Radio
 * Resources
 * Retail sales
 * ROM and memory images
 * Saved Games
 * Schema formats
 * Scientific Data formats and mathematics related formats
 * Security
 * Serialization
 * Source code
 * System files (please... don't delete them)
 * Telephony
 * Temporary files
 * Text-based data
 * Transfer Encodings
 * Transportation (formats used in vehicles, transit and shipping systems, etc.)
 * Video
 * Web

Links

 * Future Computer Technology and its Impact (1966)
 * Old Files (xkcd)
 * Tutorials on 'glitch' and 'databending' techniques to munge data for artistic purposes
 * Funky File Formats (video)
 * Introduction to file format internals (video)