Here is a list of file formats under consideration, some of which we consider preferred formats for archiving. See about for background.
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??? abstract "Concepts" A data type is a way of organizing raw data for specific modelling applications such as image, sound, text, structured data, etc.
A file format is a way to serialize the data of a specific data type to a file
such as [=pdf], [=xlsx], [=siard], etc.
Applications that deal with that data are programmed in such a way that they can
read one or more file formats for that type.
When data is written to file in a specific file format, the file name often gets
an extension that indicates that file format
such as [.pdf], [.xlsx], etc.
There are usually several file formats associated with one data type.
??? tip "Legenda" [[preferred]]
[[overview]]
??? caution "If you are reading an archived copy of these docs" If you browsing the raw files, dataTypes contains a collection of data types and fileFormats contains a collection of file formats. and extensions contains a collection of file extensions.
All the content is preserved, but the formatting is just done
by means of white space and by using [=markdown] formatting.