Re: [xml-dev] Data versus data format?

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>]

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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