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formalized structure of information stored in a storage medium
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Summary

file format ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (390 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • file format's image is recorded as Image carte de points.png[2].
  • file format's GND ID is recorded as 4433979-3[3].
  • file format's subclass of is recorded as data format[4].
  • file format's subclass of is recorded as technical specification[5].
  • file format's subclass of is recorded as technical standard[6].
  • file format's part of is recorded as file format family[7].
  • file format's Commons category is recorded as File formats[8].
  • file format's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/030v0[9].
  • file format's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph195828[10].
  • file format's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Computer file formats[11].
  • file format's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300266011[12].
  • file format's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0281508[13].
  • file format's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox file format[14].
  • file format's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/file-format[15].
  • file format's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2748[16].
  • file format's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3266[17].
  • file format's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2701[18].
  • file format's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3381[19].
  • file format's main Wikidata property is recorded as P4460[20].
  • file format's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/dc/terms/FileFormat[21].
  • file format's different from is recorded as file system[22].
  • file format's different from is recorded as disk storage format[23].
  • file format's different from is recorded as data format[24].
  • file format's properties for this type is recorded as P31[25].
  • file format's properties for this type is recorded as P361[26].

Why It Matters

file format ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (390 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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References

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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