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Degree
to which complete specifications and tools for
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validating
technical integrity exist and are accessible to those
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creating
and sustaining digital content. A spectrum of
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disclosure
levels can be observed for digital formats.
What is
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most
significant is not approval by a recognized standards
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body,
but the existence of complete documentation.
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Preservation
of content in a given digital format over the long
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term
is not feasible without an understanding of how the
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information
is represented (encoded) as bits and bytes in
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digital
files.
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Examples:
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TIFF
image format well documented, many products and shareware
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MrSID
image format partially documented, proprietary elements
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protected
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