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Coordination Action for the integration of Solar System Infrastructures and Science |
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Metadata
It is essential that all files contain good metadata describing the
characteristics of the observations; if metadata are not properly formed,
it may be impossible to use the data in some circumstance
The type of a file, and what metadata are associated with it, depends on the file's pupose, the organization that produced is and the domain it belongs to; standard file formats for the domains are FITS, CDF or similar. Most data files associated with science in the Solar System will have some parts of the metadata that are very similar. The key is to increase the amount of data in this part. We therefore need to try to push down the boundary between the standard and domain specific parts of the metadata.
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