Electronic File Formats

Revision as of 16:56, 30 March 2013

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
• Encryption
• Error detection and correction
• 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
• Radio
• 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