TU Wien:Digital Preservation VO (Rauber)/Prüfung 2017-03-06

1) Digital Preservation Introduction

a) What kind of preservation would you achieve if you store data on a physical storage (ex: titanium disk)? Why is it not a complete solution for preservation?

b)????

2)File Format Registries, Characterisation, Content Profiling

a) What is identification, and why is only file extension not enough? what is characterization? is only one type enough?

b) what are the 3 type of conflicts that might occur when using 3 different identification tools.

3) Preservation Planning

a) What do you do in "select sample object" step and why is the process important?

b) what do you do in "identify requirements"? What is an objective tree?

4)Metadata

a) What is metadata? where do we use it in digital preservation?

b) internal vs. external metadata, what are the differences? if you would develop a photo management App which type would you use? why?

c) we discussed 5 type of metadata in the class, list and describe them.

5) Data Management Plans

a) What is DMP and what is the structure? write down 4 different questions from 3 different categories.

b) what are the requirment and needs if you want to implement DMP in an institute?