the Archivist shall request the Attorney General to initiate such an action, and shall notify Congress when such a request has been made. (d) Public availability of data assets (1) In general Each data asset that has been made available to the public by the head of a Federal agency shall remain available to the public. (2) Machine-readable data assets Each data asset that has been made available to the public in a machine-readable format by the head of a Federal agency shall remain available to the public in a machine-readable format. (e) Rule of construction Nothing in this section may be construed to exclude any type of record from the requirements of this chapter. (f) Definitions In this section: (1) Data The term data means recorded information, regardless of form or the media on which the data is recorded. (2) Data asset The term data asset means a collection of data elements or data sets that may be grouped together. (3) Machine-readable format The term machine-readable format means a format in which information or data can be easily processed by a computer without human intervention while ensuring no semantic meaning is lost. .