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Formats based on electronic/online media.
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Formats based on electronic/online media. (Wikidata: {{wikidata|Q235557}})
  
* [[3D and CAD/CAM Models]]
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* '''[[3D and CAD/CAM Models]]'''
 
* [[Address books and contacts]]
 
* [[Address books and contacts]]
* [[Audio]]
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* [[Agriculture]]
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* [[Animation]]
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* [[Annotation]]
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* '''[[Archiving]]'''
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* '''[[Audio and Music]]'''
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* [[Backup]]
 
* [[Bibliographic data]] - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
 
* [[Bibliographic data]] - Catalogues, Finding aids and Reference lists
 
* [[Calendars]]
 
* [[Calendars]]
* [[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors]]
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* '''[[Cameras and Digital Image Sensors]]'''
* [[Character Encoding]]
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* '''[[Character encoding]]''' - Character encodings map binary data onto written characters.
* [[Compression]] - includes archiving
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* '''[[Compression]]'''
* [[Database]]
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* [[Configuration files]]
* [[Disk Image Formats]]
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* [[Coupons and Tickets]]
* [[Document]] - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
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* [[Culinary arts]] - file formats related to cooking, baking, frying, broiling... Yum!
* [[E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums]]
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* [[Currency]] - electronic currencies (e.g., Bitcoin). Also some systems for transferring funds in various currencies.
* [[Electronic Publishing formats]]
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* [[Databases]]
* [[Encryption]]
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* [[Data type]]
* [[Executables]]
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* '''[[Development]]'''
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* [[Diagramming and flowcharting]]
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* '''[[Disk Image Formats]]''' (or tape image, etc.; images of data as stored on physical media)
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* [[Diskmagazines]]
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* [[Distributed computing projects]] (volunteer and grid computing)
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* '''[[Document]]''' - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
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* [[Education]]
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* [[Electronic Publishing formats]] (e-books)
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* [[Elements of File Formats]]
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* '''[[E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums]]''' (includes various other sorts of messaging, BBSs, social networking, etc.)
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* [[Encryption]] (including ransomware and ways to decrypt it)
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* [[Engineering]]
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* [[Enterprise software]] (ERP, CRM, and the rest of the buzzword initialism soup)
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* [[Error codes and messages]]
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* [[Error detection and correction]]
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* '''[[Executables]]'''
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* [[Fictional file formats]]
 
* '''[[Filesystem]]''' - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
 
* '''[[Filesystem]]''' - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
* [[Fonts]]
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* [[File transfer]]
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* [[Finance and Accounting]] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuYfScGpbE
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* [[Firmware]] (low-level system files/data/programs)
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* '''[[Fonts]]'''
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* [[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)
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* '''[[Game data files]]'''
 
* [[Genealogical data]]
 
* [[Genealogical data]]
* [[Geospatial]]
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* '''[[Geospatial]]'''
* [[Game data files]]
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* '''[[Graphics]]'''
* [[Graphics]]
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* [[Health and Medicine]]
 
* [[Help files]]
 
* [[Help files]]
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* [[Hypermedia]] (self-contained files that combine text, graphics, audio, video, and executable code)
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* [[Industrial]]
 
* [[Interactive Fiction]]
 
* [[Interactive Fiction]]
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* [[Internet]]
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* [[Law]] (legislation, litigation, lawyer stuff, etc.)
 
* [[Machine Embroidery]]
 
* [[Machine Embroidery]]
* [[Mind maps, Topic maps etc]]
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* [[Markup]]
* [[Music]] - for musical notation and musical-instrument control, rather than audio files
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* [[Metadata]]
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* [[Metaformats]]
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* [[Military]]
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* [[Mind maps, Topic maps, etc.]]
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* [[Miscellaneous File Formats]]
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* [[Networking]]
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* [[News media]] (formats used in journalism and news publishing)
 
* [[Page description languages]] as used in print preprocessing
 
* [[Page description languages]] as used in print preprocessing
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* [[Performing Arts]]
 
* [[Personal Digital Assistant formats]]
 
* [[Personal Digital Assistant formats]]
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* [[Politics]]
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* [[Project management]]
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* [[Protocols]]
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* [[Puzzles]] (crossword, sudoku, jigsaw... any sort of brain-teaser)
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* [[Radio]]
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* [[Resources]]
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* [[Retail sales]]
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* [[ROM and memory images]]
 
* [[Saved Games]]
 
* [[Saved Games]]
* [[Scientific Data formats]] and mathematics related formats
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* [[Schema formats]]
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* '''[[Scientific Data formats]]''' and mathematics related formats
 
* [[Security]]
 
* [[Security]]
 
* [[Serialization]]
 
* [[Serialization]]
 
* [[Source code]]
 
* [[Source code]]
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* [[System files]] (please... don't delete them)
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* [[Telephony]]
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* [[Temporary files]]
 
* [[Text-based data]]
 
* [[Text-based data]]
* [[Video]]
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* [[Transfer Encodings]]
* [[Web]]
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* [[Transportation]] (formats used in vehicles, transit and shipping systems, etc.)
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* '''[[Video]]'''
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* '''[[Web]]'''
  
=== Temporary Categories ===
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== Links ==
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* [http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P3279.pdf Future Computer Technology and its Impact (1966)]
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* [http://xkcd.com/1360/ Old Files (xkcd)]
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* [http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ Tutorials on 'glitch' and 'databending' techniques to munge data for artistic purposes]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5G_t-gUBc Funky File Formats (video)]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9m5N2DA6mE Introduction to file format internals (video)]
  
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.
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[[Category:Electronic File Formats| ]]
 
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* [[ROM Images]]
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* [[Binary Data]] (<- Move some or all of these to other categories)
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* [[Resource Fork]]
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Latest revision as of 19:11, 24 April 2024

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Formats based on electronic/online media. (Wikidata: Q235557)

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