On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 18:24 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
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> 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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