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
- Currency - electronic currencies (e.g., Bitcoin)
- Databases
- Development
- Disk Image Formats (or tape image, etc.; images of data as stored on physical media)
- Diskmagazines
- Document - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation
- E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums (includes various other sorts of messaging, BBSs, social networking, etc.)
- Electronic Publishing formats
- Error correction
- Encryption
- 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
- Mind maps, Topic maps etc
- Page description languages as used in print preprocessing
- Personal Digital Assistant formats
- 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
