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MediaType Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Mime Media Types
Lvl | Type, Domain name and/or Mnemonic code | Concept ID | Mnemonic | Print Name | Definition/Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | A: ApplicationMediaType | A14832 |  |  | Application specific media type.
2 | L: (application/dicom) | C21460 | application/dicom | DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) MIME type defined in RFC3240 [http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3240.txt].
2 | L: (application/msword) | C14834 | application/msword | MSWORD | This format is very prone to compatibility problems. If sharing of edit-able text is required, text/plain, text/html or text/rtf should be used instead.
2 | L: (application/pdf) | C14833 | application/pdf | PDF | The Portable Document Format is recommended for written text that is completely laid out and read-only. PDF is a platform independent, widely deployed, and open specification with freely available creation and rendering tools.
1 | A: AudioMediaType | A14835 |  |  | Audio media type.
2 | L: (audio/basic) | C14836 | audio/basic | Basic Audio | This is a format for single channel audio, encoded using 8bit ISDN mu-law [PCM] at a sample rate of 8000 Hz. This format is standardized by: CCITT, Fascicle III.4 -Recommendation G.711. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) of Voice Frequencies. Geneva, 1972.
2 | L: (audio/k32adpcm) | C14838 | audio/k32adpcm | K32ADPCM Audio | ADPCM allows compressing audio data. It is defined in the Internet specification RFC 2421 [ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2421.txt]. Its implementation base is unclear.
2 | L: (audio/mpeg) | C14837 | audio/mpeg | MPEG audio layer 3 | MPEG-1 Audio layer-3 is an audio compression algorithm and file format defined in ISO 11172-3 and ISO 13818-3. MP3 has an adjustable sampling frequency for highly compressed telephone to CD quality audio.
1 | A: ImageMediaType | A14839 |  |  | Image media type.
2 | L: (image/g3fax) | C14843 | image/g3fax | G3Fax Image | This is recommended only for fax applications.
2 | L: (image/gif) | C14841 | image/gif | GIF Image | GIF is a popular format that is universally well supported. However GIF is patent encumbered and should therefore be used with caution.
2 | L: (image/jpeg) | C14842 | image/jpeg | JPEG Image | This format is required for high compression of high color photographs. It is a "lossy" compression, but the difference to lossless compression is almost unnoticeable to the human vision.
2 | L: (image/png) | C14840 | image/png | PNG Image | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) [http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png] is a widely supported lossless image compression standard with open source code available.
2 | L: (image/tiff) | C14844 | image/tiff | TIFF Image | Although TIFF (Tag Image File Format) is an international standard it has many interoperability problems in practice. Too many different versions that are not handled by all software alike.
1 | A: ModelMediaType | A14848 |  |  | Model media type.
2 | L: (model/vrml) | C14849 | model/vrml | VRML Model | This is an openly standardized format for 3D models that can be useful for virtual reality applications such as anatomy or biochemical research (visualization of the steric structure of macromolecules)
1 | A: MultipartMediaType | A14850 |  |  | Multipart Media Type
2 | L: (multipart/x-hl7-cda-level-one) | C14851 | multipart/x-hl7-cda-level-one | CDA Level 1 Multipart | The HL7 clinical document Architecture, Level 1 MIME package.
1 | A: TextMediaType | A14825 |  |  | For any text
2 | L: (text/x-hl7-ft) | C14827 | text/x-hl7-ft | HL7 Text | For compatibility, this represents the HL7 v2.x FT data type. Its use is recommended only for backward compatibility with HL7 v2.x systems.
2 | L: (text/html) | C14828 | text/html | HTML Text | For marked-up text according to the Hypertext Mark-up Language. HTML markup is sufficient for typographically marking-up most written-text documents. HTML is platform independent and widely deployed.
2 | L: (text/plain) | C14826 | text/plain | Plain Text | For any plain text. This is the default and is equivalent to a character string (ST) data type.
2 | L: (text/rtf) | C14831 | text/rtf | RTF Text | The Rich Text Format is widely used to share word-processor documents. However, RTF does have compatibility problems, as it is quite dependent on the word processor. May be useful if word processor edit-able text should be shared.
2 | L: (text/sgml) | C14829 | text/sgml | SGML Text | For structured character based data. There is a risk that general SGML/XML is too powerful to allow a sharing of general SGML/XML documents between different applications.
2 | L: (text/xml) | C14830 | text/xml | XML Text | For structured character based data. There is a risk that general SGML/XML is too powerful to allow a sharing of general SGML/XML documents between different applications.
1 | A: VideoMediaType | A14845 |  |  | Video media type.
2 | L: (video/mpeg) | C14846 | video/mpeg | MPEG Video | MPEG is an international standard, widely deployed, highly efficient for high color video; open source code exists; highly interoperable.
2 | L: (video/x-avi) | C14847 | video/x-avi | X-AVI Video | The AVI file format is just a wrapper for many different codecs; it is a source of many interoperability problems.

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