or abstract digital construct. [Archives] 
n.,
 Any aggregation of data. [Archives]  Any aggregation of data. [Archives] 
n., The byte-serialized encoding of a digital object that defines the syntactic and semantic rules for the mapping from an inform
ation model to a byte stream and the inverse mapping from that byte stream back to the original information model. In most conte
xts, digital format is used interchangeably with digital file-related concepts such as file format, file wrapper, file encoding, et