DAS Certificate Exam

compilation

Collection of preexisting materials arrranged to form a new original work

COPTR

Community Owned Digital Preservation Tool Registry

"Sonny Bono Act"

Copyright act of 1998. Individuals are granted copyright protection for their lifetime plus seventy years.

Section 108

Copyright exceptions for libraries; does not apply to pictorial or A/V works

DACS

Describing Archives: A Content Standard;

DCMA

Digital Millennium Copyright Act; applies to digital records

DROID

Digital Record Object Identification; automatic file format identification tool

DIP

Dissemination Information Package

XML

Extensible Markup Language, a way of writing data in a structured form by enclosing it in tags.

LOCKS

Lots of copies keep stuff safe

MARC

Machine Readable Cataloging; a schema that uses numerical fields to encode bibliographic information and other metadata

METS

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard; used to encode descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for digital objects

MODS

Metadata Object Description Schema; XML-based schema developed by the Library of Congress, more complex than Dublin Core but less complex than MARC

Descriptive metadata

Metadata that characterizes the nature of an information artifact, record, archival resource or library resource and supports its discovery

NDSA Levels of Preservation

National Digital Stewardship Alliance; matrix for assessing digital preservation according to five functional areas: Storage, Integrity, Control, Metadata, Content

OAIS Reference Model

Open Archival Information System; framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term.

PREMIS

Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies; comprised of four different entities

RDF

Resource Description Framework. Describes resources using a subject-predicate-object statement

3-legged stool

Resources, technology, organization

SIP

Submission Information Package

Fair Use

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations. 4 factors to consider: 1) purpose and character, 2) nature of protected work, 3) amount of substance used, 4) market effect

TDR

Trusted Digital Repository; provides reliable access to managed digital resources for its designated community in perpetuity

URI

Universal Resource Identifier

emulation

Using new hardware and software to imitate and recreate the original look, feel, and functionality of a file

conceptual model

a framework of ideas for explaining and studying entities and their relationships; e.g., FRBR

requirement

a functional need that must be present in a digital preservation system

authenticity

a record is what it claims to be

Wireframe

an image or set of images which displays the functional elements of a website or page, typically used for planning a site's structure and functionality.

born digital

an item originating in a computer environment with no analog counterpart

Computational Archival Science

applying computational thinking and methods to archival practices and decisions

digital video

consist of content streams and a file container

normalization

converting all digital objects of a particular type into a single format to ensure functionality and longevity

specification

group of related requirements

metadata

information that characterizes or describes an information artifact, record, or archival resource

record

materials created or received by a person/family/organization created in the course of events and selected to be preserved in some format

Migration

moving data between formats or systems as as an act of preservation

NER

named entity recognition

Task Analysis

observing users interacting with your system

PRONOM

public, web-based file format registry managed by the National Archives (UK)

de-duping

removing duplicate items from a collection

Digital Forensics

the discovery, collection, and analysis of evidence found on computers and networks

copyright

the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

virtual machine

tricks your computer into thinking it's a different kind of computer, e.g. running Linux on a Windows machine

sectors and clusters

units of storage that can be identified and found by a computer system

fixity information

used to ensure a digital object has not been changed; e.g., checksums, hashes, digital signatures

orphan works

works still protected by copyright, but the copyright owner is unknown or difficult to determine

Not Protected by Copyright

works without originality like facts, recipes, ideas, US Govt works, laws, public domain items, and works not by human beings

4 characteristics of records to preserve

1) Authenticity 2) Reliability 3) Integrity 4) Usability

standard

A document that provides requirements, specifications, and guidelines that can be used consistently to ensure that materials and processes are fit for their intended purpose

Copyright Act of 1976

A federal statute that (1) establishes the requirements for obtaining a copyright and (2) protects copyrighted works from infringement.

derivative work

A new, original product that includes content from previously existing work.

Dublin Core

A small set of metadata elements used to describe digital resources; maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

ACMS

Archival Collections Management System; program that provides support for archival workflows, including appraisal, accession, description, arrangement and collections management

AIP

Archival Information Package