On 28 Jan 2016, at 20:31, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.