File format webopedia

[John Foust]

At 10:44 PM 3/13/2005, you wrote:
>Just found a terrific resource:
>http://www.fileformat.info/
>Has tons of information on file formats (mostly graphics, but also some
>text and markup formats).  Searchable, with links to specifications and
>such.  Might be useful when trying to decode an old file format you're not
>familiar with.

A lot of the file format info comes from the second edition of
O'Reilly's Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats.  I did a little
editing and contributed a chapter or so to it back in 1996.  

It's a few years old and out of print, although it seems O'Reilly 
has allowed it to be copied now.  The primary author and I tried
pitching a 3D-oriented file format book to extend the series
but they didn't bite.

The guy's custom-made conglomerate of under-the-hood tools looked
interesting; I'd love to find a good CMS that would let me better
organize a similar pile of computer docs and tidbits.  I'd love to
find something more oriented to museum-like curation and archiving,
with lots of metadata to preserve file info and location and origin.

- John