Electronic File Formats
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Formats based on electronic/online media.
- 3D and CAD/CAM Models
- Accounting
- Address books and contacts
- 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 - includes archiving
- Database
- Development
- Disk Image Formats
- 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)
