Technology & Tools Flashcards
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An institution is implementing web archiving. Which tool developed by the Internet Archive is commonly used by archives for crawling and preserving websites?
Answer: Heritrix
Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source web crawler specifically designed for archival-quality web harvesting.
PDF/A is a version of PDF designed specifically for which purpose?
Answer: Long-term archival preservation of electronic documents
PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of PDF that prohibits features unsuitable for long-term archiving, such as font linking and encryption.
Which international standard defines the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model?
Answer: ISO 14721
ISO 14721 formally defines the OAIS reference model, providing a conceptual framework for digital preservation systems.
When an archive migrates digital records from one format to another to counter obsolescence, this preservation strategy is known as:
Answer: Format migration
Format migration involves converting digital objects from one file format to another to ensure continued accessibility as technologies evolve.
Which of the following tools is most commonly used by archives to create and manage EAD-encoded finding aids?
Answer: ArchivesSpace
ArchivesSpace is the leading open-source archival management system that supports EAD export and is widely adopted by academic and institutional archives.
A digitization project specification calls for scanning documents at 400 PPI. What does PPI measure in this context?
Answer: Pixels per inch—the spatial resolution of the scanned image
PPI (pixels per inch) measures the spatial resolution of a digital image, indicating how much detail is captured per unit of physical length.
Which preservation strategy involves creating an environment that mimics obsolete software or hardware so original digital objects can still be rendered?
Answer: Emulation
Emulation recreates the behavior of obsolete hardware or software environments, allowing original digital objects to run without format conversion.
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