File format

• From: <Manuel.CARRASCO-BENITEZ@ec.europa.eu>
• Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:50:48 +0000
• To: <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <39DB516E46C0E842A2CFFF1BBB7412F15F929745@S-DC-ESTF03-B.net1.cec.eu.int>

Dear all,

It is propose to make "data format" a synonymous of "file format" in
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Glossary

Look at the examples given in both:

- Data format
    Examples of data formats: CSV, XML, RDF and JSON

- File Format
    Examples of file formats: txt, pdf, ps, avi, gif and jpg


All are "file formats".

File format does not implies that the data is in a file; i.e., it can exist only in the wire. For example, the XML fragment

 <foo>Hell world</foo>

can be in the file "foo.xml" or sent from the process "foo" to the process "bar", but never written to disk.

Regards
Tomas

Received on Monday, 13 April 2015 08:51:19 UTC