See also this related effort: Wikibook: Choosing The Right File Format.
File Format Registries #
- Format registries to include:
- A file extension registry?
- File Free File Command
- JMimeMagic can help here.
- MIME Types
- PRONOM
- Global Digital Format Registry
- Apple Uniform Type Identifiers
Documents #
- Open Office v. Office Open XML
- Compound Document Format
- HTML
Databases #
Preservation-Format Approach.