On 28 Jan 2016, at 20:31, Phillip Hallam-Baker
<phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
I have noticed that when the term 'museum quality' is used in this
type of discussions it usually ends up meaning 'apply some unknown and
unknowable criteria that purport to ensure that the data will be
readable when the planet fries to a crisp when the sun expires’.
While the details vary from country to country - I guess that for the purposes
of this discussion it is a useful term.
Dw.
PS: If you are curious (it is quite a profession & specialisation - with, like
the IETF, an associated
body of international experts collaborating and meeting in far flung
places):
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
is a good starting point for the US - specifically the normative resources on
preservation standards.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/long-term-preservation-of-digital-documents/oclc/262692324
is a fairly well known/neutral baseline. The standards in europe, the UK and
Asia are pretty much identical.