Definition

A digital migration in which there is an alteration to the content information or preservation Description information of an archival information package. For example, changing ASCII codes to UNICODE in a text document being preserved is a transformation. See also reformatting.

Comments

Data can be converted dynamically on-demand (eg. converting Grib to netCDF, converting neCDF to COG) using a lambda function.  The may result from order fulfillment in converting for example  netCDF to Zarr or  CSV to PDF. 

Source

 CEOS/WGISS/DSIG/GLOS

NCEI/DAB

CEOS EO Data Stewardship Glossary

NESDIS Data Management Lexicon and Related Terms 

Category

4. Data Stewardship words