Lecture 3 Flashcards
1
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risk management
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- Any preservation process involves determining the risk to the material, then eliminating or mitigating those risks
- Risk can never be zero!
2
Q
How does digital preservationists mitigate some of those risks?
A
- All is well beyond the scope of this course
- If you have specifics you’re worried about, as Ms. Salo!
3
Q
Inherent Vice:
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Every information carrier/medium is vulnerable to risks that are specific to that carrier/medium
4
Q
Ways Media Goes Bad
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- Physical Media Destruction – literally smashing it
- Physical Media Deterioration – super insidious! You often find out when you try to use it!
- Lack of working equipment to read physical media
5
Q
how to mitigate media failure
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have more than one copy!!
6
Q
More durable file formats tend to be
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- Open standards (for our purposes, not belonging to a single co.)
- Well-documented, publicly
- In very common use
- Lossless
7
Q
Mitigating business and organizational risks
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- Know what you have and where it is
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
8
Q
Malice
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Theft or destruction of physical carries
