file format
C2622
concept
A file format is a standardized structure and encoding scheme that defines how data is organized, stored, and interpreted within a digital file.
All labels observed (109)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| file format canonical | 42 |
| data interchange format | 10 |
| RDF serialization format | 7 |
| data format | 7 |
| data serialization format | 6 |
| digital container format | 6 |
| raster image file format | 6 |
| binary file format | 5 |
| computer file system | 5 |
| document file format | 5 |
| file format standard | 5 |
| image file format | 5 |
| 3D file format | 4 |
| columnar storage file format | 4 |
| configuration file format | 4 |
| file format specification | 4 |
| multimedia container format | 4 |
| serialization format | 4 |
| XML-based file format | 3 |
| lossy audio compression format | 3 |
| object file format | 3 |
| 3D graphics file format | 2 |
| XML-based format | 2 |
| documentation format | 2 |
| e-book file format | 2 |
| graphics file format | 2 |
| open format | 2 |
| software packaging format | 2 |
| Adobe InDesign file format | 1 |
| Adobe file format | 1 |
| Amazon file format | 1 |
| CAD data exchange format | 1 |
| CAD file format | 1 |
| CSV specification | 1 |
| Crystallographic Information File standard | 1 |
| File format standard | 1 |
| Hadoop file format | 1 |
| LightWave 3D file format | 1 |
| Maven configuration file format | 1 |
| Office Open XML markup language | 1 |
| OpenDocument Format | 1 |
| OpenDocument Format version | 1 |
| TeX-related file format | 1 |
| XML-based data format | 1 |
| XML-based reporting format | 1 |
| ZIP-based packaging format | 1 |
| archival document format | 1 |
| archive file format | 1 |
| archive file format specification | 1 |
| asset exchange format | 1 |
| big data file format | 1 |
| binary container format | 1 |
| binary data stream format | 1 |
| bitmap image format | 1 |
| bitmap subtitle format | 1 |
| book format | 1 |
| building information modeling format | 1 |
| caption file format | 1 |
| comic book archive file format | 1 |
| container file format | 1 |
| crystallographic data format | 1 |
| data file format | 1 |
| data storage format | 1 |
| database file format | 1 |
| debugging information file format | 1 |
| digital font format | 1 |
| digital multimedia container format | 1 |
| digital multimedia format | 1 |
| disk image format | 1 |
| document format | 1 |
| eBook file format | 1 |
| email storage format | 1 |
| executable and object file format | 1 |
| file archive format | 1 |
| file extension | 1 |
| file format family | 1 |
| file packaging standard | 1 |
| file signature | 1 |
| file-based index format | 1 |
| font format | 1 |
| human-readable data format | 1 |
| image compression format | 1 |
| interoperable master format specification | 1 |
| legacy document format | 1 |
| line-based format | 1 |
| machine-readable reporting format | 1 |
| media file format standard | 1 |
| module format | 1 |
| neutral file format | 1 |
| office document file format | 1 |
| office document format | 1 |
| portable application format | 1 |
| raw image file format | 1 |
| raw image format | 1 |
| scene file format | 1 |
| software installation package format | 1 |
| software metadata format | 1 |
| subtitle file format | 1 |
| syndication format | 1 |
| tabular data format | 1 |
| tar archive format | 1 |
| technical document format | 1 |
| text file | 1 |
| text-based file format | 1 |
| text-based format | 1 |
| timed text format | 1 |
| token format | 1 |
| web archiving format | 1 |
| web feed format | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: file format
Generated description
A file format is a standardized structure and encoding scheme that defines how data is organized, stored, and interpreted within a digital file.
Instances (185)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| reStructuredText | documentation format |
| UDDF | data format |
| Matroska | multimedia container format |
| MPEG-TS | digital container format |
| Thinline | book format |
| Dockerfile | configuration file format |
| Portable Document Format | — |
| ELF | binary file format |
| COFF | object file format |
| a.out | object file format |
| S-record | — |
| Intel HEX | — |
| bzip2 | — |
| lzip | — |
| POSIX ustar format | tar archive format |
| POSIX tar | archive file format specification |
| Microsoft Office binary formats | file format family |
| VMDK | — |
| CSV | — |
| Project Object Model | Maven configuration file format |
| Dalvik Executable format | — |
| vCalendar | data interchange format |
| IDX | — |
| EPUB | e-book file format |
| XML | — |
| JSON | data interchange format |
| exFAT | computer file system |
| VP9 | open format |
| Optimized Row Columnar | columnar storage file format |
| TIFF | raster image file format |
| R Markdown | — |
| TOML | configuration file format |
| Pipfile | configuration file format |
| PK | TeX-related file format |
| Apache Parquet | columnar storage file format |
| WARC | — |
| AAC | lossy audio compression format |
| libpcap | — |
| DocBook | documentation format |
| XBRL | machine-readable reporting format |
| vCard | — |
| PresentationML | Office Open XML markup language |
| Open Packaging Conventions | file packaging standard |
|
CAP
surface form:
Common Alerting Protocol
|
data interchange format |
| Common Alerting Protocol | data interchange format |
| STIX | data format |
| CIF2 | data file format |
| imgCIF | crystallographic data format |
| STAR File syntax | data format |
| CIF1 | — |