riformatuar

Riformatuar is a neologistic term used in some technical discourse to describe the process of reformating a data object, document, or software artefact to align with updated formats, interfaces, or schemas while preserving the original content and functional behavior. The term is not widely standardized and does not refer to a single widely accepted method; rather, it encompasses a range of operations such as schema migration, encoding transcoding, normalization, metadata reattachment, and compatibility shims.

Etymology: The word appears to be built from the Latin root reformare (to reform) combined with the root "format" and a Romance-language style suffix -uar, signaling a process or action. Its usage is mainly in speculative or illustrative contexts rather than in formal standards.

Usage: In practice, riformatuar is used qualitatively to describe the outcome of a reformatted artefact that remains semantically equivalent to the original. For example: "The pipeline riformatuar the legacy records to the new schema." The term is more common in blogs, design notes, and experimental documentation than in formal specifications.

Variants: Some writers use "riformatuare" as a gerund or noun form in pseudo-Romance styles, but there is no consensus.

See also: Reformatting, Data migration, Data transformation, Document conversion, Schema evolution, Digital preservation.