what is machine readable
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Machine-readable data is data (or metadata) which is in a format that can be understood by a computer. There are two types; human-readable data that is marked up so that it can also be read by machines (examples; microformats, RDFa, HTML) or data file formats intended principally for processing by machines (RDF, XML, JSON). Machine readable is not synonymous with digitally accessible.