Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image (opens in new tab)

If this is of interest, Wikidata contains a huge amount of data on file formats. For example, [1] is a huge list of file formats and [2] is a list of documentation or source code (structs etc) describing file formats. Other data includes links to other file format information databses such as PRONOM, LOC and NARA, magic sequences to identify files of a particular format, and links to source code as parsers of file formats.

Where most people would say "It's a JPEG file", the data within Wikidata breaks that down into the detail of different versions of JFIF, SPIFF, EXIF, etc that are all have different internal formats, even though the file extensions and media types are common.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati...

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informati...

Nice list. USD (Universal Scene Description) has been renamed to OpenUSD. Part of the motivation was to make it easier to search for. Not all the official docs have been updated yet though.

Another good web site for media data formats is https://wiki.multimedia.cx

Handy resource. Thanks.

Is see IFF is missing from that list. Used to be popular in the Amiga world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format

No mention of DICOM which is the de facto medical image format. It also supports ECG.

Good old Paul Bourke! Amazing how many interesting things he's covered on his site! Love that it's basically static html too, always nice and snappy!

Its down right now but the ArchiveTeam file formats wiki is pretty good too. http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/

This is awesome! I haven't found this detailed of a description of the vox format in one place anywhere. This will help me a ton on my hobby project for which I wrote my own vox library to write files.