LONG TERM PRESERVATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION SPACE DATA RELEVANT STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES Ref. : STFC D3.2 Issue : Draft Date : 15/10/2010 LTDP Relevant Standards and Procedures Page: 2 of 174 CHANGE LOG Reason for change Issue Date First emission 1.0 15 October 2010 CHANGE RECORD Issue: Draft Reason for change page(s) Paragraph(s) First emission All All Role Name Writers Esther Conway (STFC) 2 Ref. : STFC D3.2 Issue : Draft Date : 15/10/2010 LTDP Relevant Standards and Procedures Page: 3 of 174 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 EUROPEAN LTDP INITIATIVES ........................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 DOCUMENT SCOPE AND PURPOSE ...................................................................................................................... 7 1.3 SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND LEGEND ............................................................................................................... 8 1.4 STANDARDS ACCREDITING ORGANIZATIONS ..................................................................................................... 8 1.5 ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS ........................... 12 2 RELEVANT STANDARDS ................................................................................................................................. 17 2.1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 17 2.2 AUTHENTICATION ............................................................................................................................................ 18 2.2.1 Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures. .............................................................................................. 18 2.2.2 OASIS Digital Signature Service ............................................................................................................. 19 2.2.3 ISO/IEC 9594-8: Information Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Public-key and Attribute Certificate Frameworks .................................................................................................................. 20 2.2.4 Security Assertion MarkUP Language .................................................................................................... 21 2.3 DIGITAL DOCUMENT PRESERVATION STANDARDS .......................................................................................... 22 2.3.1 ISO/TR 18492: Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Document-Based Information .......................... 22 2.4 FILE FORMATS AND DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES ............................................................................................... 23 2.4.1 Standard Archive Format for Europe ...................................................................................................... 23 2.4.2 NetCDF (network Common Data Form) ................................................................................................. 24 2.4.3 Open document format for office applications (OpenDocument) ........................................................... 25 2.4.4 DocBook ................................................................................................................................................... 26 2.4.5 ISO 19005-1: Document Management - Electronic Document File Format for Long-term Preservation 27 2.4.6 NASA AMES ............................................................................................................................................. 28 2.4.7 JCAMP - DX ............................................................................................................................................ 29 2.4.8 HDF ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 2.4.9 CDF ......................................................................................................................................................... 31 2.4.10 CEOS Superstructure format ................................................................................................................. 32 2.4.11 MPH/SPH/DHR data formats ................................................................................................................ 33 2.4.12 Spatial data Transfer standard .............................................................................................................. 34 2.4.13 Flexible image transport system (FITS) ................................................................................................ 35 2.4.14 Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) ..................................................................................................... 36 2.4.15 Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) .................................. 37 2.4.16 GEOTiff .................................................................................................................................................. 38 2.4.17 GRIB ...................................................................................................................................................... 39 2.4.18 Post Processing Format (PP) ................................................................................................................ 40 2.4.19 Data description EAST Specification .................................................................................................... 41 2.4.20 Data Format Description Language ...................................................................................................... 42 2.4.21 PVL (Parameter value language ) ......................................................................................................... 43 2.4.22 DRB ........................................................................................................................................................ 44 2.5 IDENTIFIER STANDARDS ................................................................................................................................... 45 2.5.1 Archival Resource Key ............................................................................................................................. 45 2.5.2 Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier ................................................................................................... 46 2.5.3 ISO/IEC 9834-8: Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) ..................................................................... 47 2.5.4 Procedures for item registration .............................................................................................................. 48 2.6 IMAGING STANDARDS ...................................................................................................................................... 49 2.6.1 ISO/TR 15801: Electronic Imaging - Information Stored Electronically - Recommendations for Trustworthiness and Reliability ............................................................................................................................ 49 2.6.2 ISO/TS 12033: Electronic Imaging -- Guidance for Selection of Document Image Compression Methods 50 2.7 INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOLS ...................................................................................................................... 51 2.7.1 Open Archive Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting .................................................................. 51 2.7.2 Extensible Markup Language (XML) ...................................................................................................... 52 3 Ref. : STFC D3.2 Issue : Draft Date : 15/10/2010 LTDP Relevant Standards and Procedures Page: 4 of 174 2.8 METADATA CONTENT STANDARDS AND CATALOGUING ................................................................................. 53 2.8.1 Catalogue Services Standard 2.0 Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products ................................................................................................................................................................ 53 2.8.2 OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification .......................................................................................... 54 2.8.3 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules ........................................................................................................ 56 2.8.4 IETF Matching of Language Tags ........................................................................................................... 57 2.8.5 IETF Tags for Identifying Languages ...................................................................................................... 58 2.8.6 MAchine-Readable Cataloguing .............................................................................................................. 59 2.8.7 Rules for Archival Description ................................................................................................................ 60 2.9 METADATA DESCRIPTION STANDARDS ............................................................................................................ 61