Electronic File Formats

Revision as of 13:16, 2 January 2015

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
• 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
• 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
• Education
• Electronic Publishing formats (e-books)
• E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums (includes various other sorts of messaging, BBSs, social networking, etc.)
• 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
• Forensics and Law Enforcement
• 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)
• Interactive Fiction
• Law (legislation, litigation, lawyer stuff, etc.)
• Machine Embroidery
• Markup
• Metadata
• Metaformats
• Mind maps, Topic maps etc
• News media (formats used in journalism and news publishing)
• Page description languages as used in print preprocessing
• Personal Digital Assistant formats
• Project management
• Puzzles (crossword, sudoku, jigsaw... any sort of brain-teaser)
• Radio
• Retail sales
• ROM and memory images
• Saved Games
• Scientific Data formats and mathematics related formats
• Security
• Serialization
• Source code
• System files
• Telephony
• Temporary files
• Text-based data (any text-based formats that didn't fit in other categories)
• 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)