See also this related effort: Wikibook: Choosing The Right File Format.

File Format Registries

• Format registries to include:
  • A file extension registry?
  • File Free File Command
    • JMimeMagic can help here.
  • MIME Types
  • PRONOM
  • Global Digital Format Registry
  • Apple Uniform Type Identifiers

Documents

• Open Office v. Office Open XML
• Compound Document Format
• HTML

Databases

Preservation-Format Approach.

• DANS M-XML
• SIARD, Providing Authentic Long-term Archival Access to Complex Relational Data

Images

• JPEG
• JPEG 2000