[Medin_standards] new file format entry for M01

[Steve Gontarek]

Not sure if "printable characters" suitable describes the format -maybe the something like "where data is encoded in a non-human- readable format" ? Machine code is actually a very low level programming language rather than a binary file per se.  A quick google also suggests the following:

"A binary file is a file whose content must be interpreted by a program or a hardware processor that understands in advance exactly how it is formatted. That is, the file is not in any externally identifiable format so that any program that wanted to could look for certain data at a certain place within the file.!


Steve

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Subject: [Medin_standards] new file format entry for M01

Hi all,

I need to create a new vocabulary term for the M01 vocabulary MEDIN use to define the files that data are stored in. At the last SWG meeting, it was agreed that the file format 'Binary' would be added to the vocabulary.

I propose the following definition

Binary: Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters such as ASCII. Often also referred to as machine code. Binary files need bespoke APIs in order to be interrogated or manipulated.

Feedback gratefully accepted.

Thanks

Sean

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