Sustainability: Transparency
Degree to which the digital representation is open to direct
analysis with basic tools, such as human readability using
a text-only editor.
Digital formats in which the underlying information is
represented simply and directly will be easier to migrate to
new formats and more susceptible to digital archaeology;
easier development of rendering software for new
technical environments.
Examples:
Uncompressed raster image bitstream easy to interpret
Lossy compressed image bitstream requires complex decoding