ReAdABLE Human Format

ReAdABLE Human Format: Open Standard for Human Readability

ReAdABLE Human Format is an open standard file format designed to be easily read and understood by humans while also being machine-readable. It aims to improve accessibility and transparency.

What is ReAdABLE Human Format?

ReAdABLE Human Format is an open standard file format developed by a community of volunteers interested in improving accessibility, transparency, and human-readability of data. The format uses simple YAML syntax with a focus on readability, avoiding unnecessarily complex encodings or structures.

Some key features of ReAdABLE Human Format include:

• Plain text files readable by humans without special software
• Indented outlines for visual structure and clarity
• Minimal syntax using only spaces, dashes, colons for simplicity
• Strict separation of metadata from content
• Built-in compatibility with YAML parsers for machine-readability
• Designed to publish, archive, and preserve accessible human-readable documents

The goal of ReAdABLE is not to be a universal file format, but rather a specialized format complementary to alternatives focused heavily on machine-optimized storage and transmission. ReAdABLE hopes to fill a niche for times when readability, transparency, and permanence are priorities over space and performance efficiency.

ReAdABLE Human Format Features

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