Data format in information technology can refer to either one of:
- Data type, constraint placed upon the interpretation of data in a type system
- Signal (electrical engineering), a format for signal data used in signal processing
- Recording format, a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium
- File format, a format for encoding data for storage in a computer file
- Container format (digital), a format for encoding data for storage by means of a standardized audio/video codecs file format
- Content format, a format for converting data to information
- Audio format, a format for processing audio data
- Video format, a format for processing video data
Famous quotes containing the word data:
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)