[Rdap] What makes an 'Archive Quality' Digital Object?

[Joe Hourcle]

As part of the side discussion about defining what a dataset is, an issue 
got raised about what about a given object makes it of 'archive quality'?


I know there's the TRAC checklist to look at what archives need to do, and 
I've seen various guidance on digitization of images, movies or audio on 
what resolution you should digitize at, and which formats you should use, 
and what metadata to attach.

... but for people who are writing the various standards used for storing 
scientific data (eg, CDF, NetCDF, HDF, FITS, VOTable), are there any 
recommendations on what sort of features / documentation / metadata are 
necessary to be of 'archival' quality?  (either as part of the standard, 
or as metadata that needs to be in each object being tracked)

-Joe

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Joe Hourcle
Programmer/Analyst
Solar Data Analysis Center
Goddard Space Flight Center