Editing Recording format

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[[File:Cylinder Head Sector.svg|thumb|300px|right|A cylinder, head, and sector of a hard drive. The sectors are a recording container format. The digital data on the disks may be both secondary [[Container format (digital)|container file formats]] and raw digital data content formats such as digital audio or ASCII encoded text.]]
[[File:WorldMapLongLat-eq-circles-tropics-non.png|thumb|440px|A map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically). The lines are a grid, a method for dividing and containing recorded [[cartographical]] data. The land masses and oceans are cartographical data in a raw content ([[pictorial]] graphical) format. The text is in an [[alphanumeric]]al symbolic raw content format.]]
A '''recording format ''' is a [[content format|format]] for encoding data for storage on a [[storage medium]]. The format can be container information such as [[Cylinder-head-sector|sectors]] on a disk, or user/audience information ([[Content (media and publishing)|content]]) such as [[analog signal|analog]] [[stereo]] [[Sound recording and reproduction|audio]].  Multiple levels of encoding may be achieved in one format. For example, a text encoded page may contain [[HTML]] and [[XML]] encoding, combined in a [[plain text]] file format, using either [[EBCDIC]] or [[ASCII]] character encoding, on a [[Universal Disk Format|UDF]] [[Digital data|digital]]ly formatted disk.  

In [[electronic media]], the primary format is the encoding that requires hardware to interpret (decode) data; while secondary encoding is interpreted by secondary [[signal processing]] methods, usually [[computer software]]. 

==Recording container formats==
A container format is a system for dividing physical storage space or virtual space for data. Data space can be divided evenly by a [[systems of measurement|system of measurement]], or divided unevenly with [[meta data]]. A grid may divide physical or virtual space with physical or virtual (dividers) borders, evenly or unevenly.  Just as a physical container (such as a [[file cabinet]]) is divided by physical borders (such as [[drawer (furniture)|drawer]]s and [[file folder]]s), data space is divided by virtual borders. Meta data such as a [[unit of measurement]], [[Address (geography)|address]], or [[meta tags]] act as virtual borders in a container format. A template may be considered an abstract format for containing a solution as well as the content itself. 

* Systems of measurement
**[[Metric system]]
** [[Geographic coordinate system]]
**[[Grid (page layout)|Page grid]]
* [[Film formats]]
* [[Audio format|Audio data format]]
* [[Video tape|Video tape format]]
* [[Disk format]]
* [[File format]]
* [[Meta data]]
** [[Formatted text|Text formatting]]
** [[Template (file format)|Template]]
** [[Data structure]]

==Raw content formats==
{{Main|Content format}}

A raw content format is a system of converting data to displayable [[information]].  Raw content formats may either be recorded in secondary signal processing methods such as a software container format (e.g. [[digital audio]], [[digital video]]) or recorded in the primary format. A primary raw content format may be directly [[Data processing|observable]] (e.g. [[image]], [[sound]], [[Motion (physics)|motion]], [[Odor|smell]], [[Haptic perception|sensation]]) or [[physics|physical]] data which only requires hardware to display it, such as a [[phonograph]]ic [[Gramophone needle|needle]] and [[diaphragm (acoustics)|diaphragm]] or a [[Image projector|projector]] [[List of light sources|lamp]] and [[magnifying glass]].

{{Audio format}}{{Homevid}}

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