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Re: Data versus data format?

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:00:50 -0500

On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 18:24 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> 
> Do you agree that data is a broader, more general concept than data
> format?

Although there can be data about a data format (examples might include
a specification as well as observed data) the format itself is not data
any more than a copper wire is electricity.

It's true in natural language, however, that the word data is much more
broadly applicable than the term data format.

Liam


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    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>