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Resource Interchange File Format

tagged file structure for multimedia resource files
Place file_format Q1196805

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
file format, file format family[2]
Inception
1991[10]
Based on
Interchange File Format[3]
Has use
multimedia[6]
Developer
Microsoft, IBM[4][5]
File extension
riff[12]
File format identification pattern
52494646, RIFF[13]
Has part(s)
Audio Video Interleave, Waveform Audio File Format, Windows Animated Cursor[7][8][9]
Has parts
Audio Video Interleave, Waveform Audio File Format, Windows Animated Cursor
Media type
application/x-riff[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Resource Interchange File Format en RIFF cs RIFF es RIFF fr RIFF ja RIFF pl RIFF zh RIFF zh 資源交換檔案格式
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300312054
BabelNet ID
00632162n
Described at URL
www.sweetscape.com, raw.githubusercontent.com, msdn.microsoft.com, www.drdobbs.com, johnloomis.org
File Format Wiki page ID
RIFF
Freebase ID
/m/011z8c
Library of Congress Format Description Document ID
fdd000025
PRONOM file format ID
fmt/1886
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com

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🔗 Connections
← Based on 4
Audio Video Interleave, Waveform Audio File Format, WebP, Windows Animated Cursor
Has part(s) 3
Audio Video Interleave, Waveform Audio File Format, Windows Animated Cursor
Developer 2
Microsoft, IBM
← Readable file format 2
ExifTool, libexiv2
Based on 1
Interchange File Format
Has use 1
multimedia
Instance of 1
file format
← FactGrid item ID 1
Victor Jaclard
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Summary

Resource Interchange File Format is a file format[1].

Related Entities

IBM Microsoft

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. Retrieved . www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . gitlab.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . gitlab.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Gary Kessler's File Signature Table. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_resource-interchange-file-format_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Resource Interchange File Format}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/resource-interchange-file-format}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-02}}
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