---
id: "file_format"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["software"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/file_format"
---

# File format name (`file_format`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name or abbreviation of a file format, as data catalogs list the formats of a dataset: CSV, XLS, XML, JSON, PDF, often several in one value separated by commas (HTML,CSV,XLS,XML). A media type (text/csv) is mimetype.

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Software development (software)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `XML`
- `CSV`
- `HTML,CSV,XLS,XML` — Several formats
- `GeoJSON`
- `text/csv` (invalid example) — Media type: mimetype

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `fileformatbyfield` (field, `common/software.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Translations

- ru: Формат файла

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: regexp, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...).

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/file_format.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/software/file_format.yaml>