On the U.S. government side: An enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time went into creating the United States Message Text (USMTF) data format.
An enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time went into creating the Link-16 data format. There are dozens of other government data formats that involved the expenditure of an enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time. On the commercial side: An enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time went into creating each of the image data formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, etc.). An enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time went into creating the document data formats (HTML, XML, CSS, PDF, Word, etc.). There are dozens of other commercial data formats that involved the expenditure of an enormous amount of brainpower, energy, and time. I see many little data formats - JSON, YAML, Markdown, Protocol Buffers, etc. - being created in recent years, but no huge data formats. Are the days of creating large, complex data formats over? /Roger
