# fileFormat

Media type, typically MIME format (see [IANA site](http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml)) of the content, e.g. application/zip of a SoftwareApplication binary. In cases where a CreativeWork has several media type representations, 'encoding' can be used to indicate each MediaObject alongside particular fileFormat information. Unregistered or niche file formats can be indicated instead via the most appropriate URL, e.g. defining Web page or a Wikipedia entry.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |
| [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | Data type: URL. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [CreativeWork](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork) | The most generic kind of creative work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs, etc. |

**Superseded by:** [encodingFormat](https://schema.org.ai/encodingFormat)

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/fileFormat, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/fileFormat.