Create a file format guide #2
Description
Explain all common data formats, with links to software for conversion to other formats, and with a 5-star rating.
- PDF: really just fine for text, although maybe publish the original files (e.g., Word) alongside it, but not at all good for spreadsheets etc.
- Word: really just fine for text, although Markdown, HTML, or RTF would be better
- XML: very detailed, but complicated—classic example of an open format
- JSON: lightweight, not hard to read or generate (CSV to JSON converter and vice-versa)
- CSV: lightweight, a supermajority of people have software to read it, great for structured data
- Excel: not as good as CSV, tough to parse, but so much better than a PDF
- [and so on]