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Compilation of Data Formats
Full Name Short Name Disciplines
Arc/Info ASCII Grid ESRI ASCII Grid Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Arc/Info Binary Grid ESRI Grid Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Band Interleaved by Line Image File BIL Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Bathymetric attributed grid BAG Oceanography
Binary Alignment Map BAM Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
Catalog Service for the Web CSW Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF COG Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
Comma Separated Values CSV Subject Agnostic
CRAM - Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
CSV Dialect - Subject Agnostic
Data Package - Subject Agnostic
Data Resource - Subject Agnostic
Enhanced Compression Wavelet ECW Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
ERDAS IMAGINE File Format ERDAS IMG Remote Sensing, Earth Science
ESRI File Geodatabase OpenFileGDB, GDB Remote Sensing, Earth Science
ESRI Personal GeoDatabase MDB Remote Sensing, Earth Science
ESRI Shapefile SHP Remote Sensing, Earth Science
FASTQ - Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form GRIB, GRIdded Binary Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Climatology
Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch - Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
GeoJSON - Remote Sensing, Earth Science
GeoPackage GPKG Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Geospatial PDF - Remote Sensing, Earth Science
GeoTIFF - Remote Sensing, Earth Science
GPS Exchange Format GPX Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Graphics Interchange Format GIF Subject Agnostic
Hierarchical Data Format Version 4 HDF4 Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 HDF5 Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
High Efficiency Image File Format HEIF, ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 Subject Agnostic
JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data JSON-LD Subject Agnostic
JPEG Image Encoding Family JPEG Subject Agnostic
Keyhole Markup Language KML Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Map Markup Language MapML Remote Sensing, Earth Science
MongoDB MongoDB Subject Agnostic
MySQL file format FRM Subject Agnostic
Network Common Data Form NetCDF Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Climatology, Oceanography
Newline delimited JavaScript Object Notation NDJSON Subject Agnostic
Normbasierte Austauschschnittstelle NAS Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Office Open XML spreadsheet XLSX Subject Agnostic
Open Document Spreadsheet ODF Subject Agnostic
OpenIndexMaps - Remote Sensing, Earth Science
OpenStreetMap file format OSM Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Planetary Data System v3 PDS3 Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
Planetary Data System v4 PDS4 Remote Sensing, Earth Science, Other
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Subject Agnostic
Radiance HDR HDR, RGBE Subject Agnostic
Scalable Vector Graphics SVG Subject Agnostic
Sequence Alignment Map SAM Omics, Life Science, Bioinformatics
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog Item STAC item Remote Sensing, Earth Science
SQLite - Subject Agnostic
Table Schema - Subject Agnostic
Tabluar Data Package - Subject Agnostic
Tabular Data Resource - Subject Agnostic
Tabular Diff Format - Subject Agnostic
TopoJSON - Remote Sensing, Earth Science
VRT Raster VRT Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Web Coverage Service WCS Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Web Feature Service WFS Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Web Map Services WMS Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Web Map Tile Service WMTS Remote Sensing, Earth Science
Zarr - Subject Agnostic