See also Optimizing Web Graphics for a discussion of Web graphic file formats.

Standards and Standard Documents(*)

A collection of documents and links to all major file format standards (as well as other computer and network standards..)

Graphics file Formats FAQ

Making sense of the maze of graphics file formats. By James D. Murray.

3D Object File Formats

Contains information on various 3D object file formats and how to view them from a Web browser. Some of the formats have detailed format specifications.

CDF

NetCDF User's Guide

Valuable repository of information on CDF. Complete breakdown of the variables, dimensions, files and more.

NSSDC's CDF

Information about Common Data Format (CDF), a self-describing data abstraction for the storage and manipulation of multidimensional data in a discipline-independent fashion.

Unidata netCDF

NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is an interface for array-oriented data access and a library that provides an implementation of the interface.