]> Format The main focus in EDAM lies on formats as means of structuring data exchanged between different tools or resources. The serialisation, compression, or encoding of concrete data formats/models is not in scope of EDAM. Format 'is format of' Data. File format Data format Data model Exchange format beta12orEarlier true A defined way or layout of representing and structuring data in a computer file, blob, string, message, or elsewhere. Operation Topic