Electronic File Formats

Revision as of 05:42, 10 November 2012

Formats based on electronic/online media.

• 3D and CAD/CAM Models
• Accounting
• Address books and contacts
• Audio
• 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
• Encryption
• Executables
• Filesystem - File systems are the protocols by which multiple files are stored and organized by an operating system
• Fonts
• Genealogical data
• Geospatial
• Game data files
• Graphics
• Help files
• Interactive Fiction
• Machine Embroidery
• Mind maps, Topic maps etc
• Music - for musical notation and musical-instrument control, rather than audio files
• Page description languages as used in print preprocessing
• Personal Digital Assistant formats
• 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.

• ROM and memory images
• Binary Data (<- Move some or all of these to other categories)
• Resource Fork