Electronic File Formats
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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
- 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
