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In [[communication]]s and [[computing]] a '''machine-readable medium''', or '''computer-readable medium''', is a [[recording medium|medium]] capable of storing [[Data (computing)|data]] in a format easily readable by a digital computer or mechanical device (rather than [[human readable]]).

The result is called '''machine-readable data''' or '''computer-readable data'''.

==Data==

'''Machine-readable data''', or '''computer-readable data''', is data in a format that can be processed by a [[computer]], a ''[[machine-readable medium]]''. Machine-readable data must be [[structured data]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opendatahandbook.org/glossary/en/terms/machine-readable/|title=Machine readable|website=opendatahandbook.org|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref>

Attempts to create machine-readable data occurred as early as the 1960s. At the same time that seminal developments in machine-reading and natural-language processing were releasing (like [[Joseph Weizenbaum|Weizenbaum's]] [[ELIZA]]), people were anticipating the success of machine-readable functionality and attempting to create machine-readable documents. One such example was musicologist [[Nancy B. Reich]]'s creation of a machine-readable catalog of composer [[Jay Sydeman|William Jay Sydeman]]'s works in 1966.