1. What can help to ensure that digital information is preserved and accessible for future generations?

Developing standards and best practices

Investing in research and development

Building partnerships

Raising awareness

2. Which approach can help to develop new technologies and techniques for digital curation?

Building partnerships

Raising awareness

Investing in research and development

Developing standards and best practices

3. What can help to share resources and expertise in digital curation?

Investing in research and development

Developing standards and best practices

Raising awareness

Building partnerships

4. What can help to encourage organizations to invest in digital curation?

Raising awareness

Investing in research and development

Developing standards and best practices

Building partnerships

5. What is digital curation?

The process of encrypting digital information

The process of deleting digital information

The process of managing and preserving digital information over time

The process of printing digital information

6. What does digital curation involve?

Describing and preserving only

Collecting, organizing, describing, preserving, and providing access to digital information

Collecting and organizing only

Providing access only

7. Why is digital curation important?

To ensure digital information is not usable for future generations

To make digital information inaccessible

To ensure digital information is accessible and usable for future generations

To delete digital information

8. What is the principal organization in the United Kingdom for developing and promoting digital curation concepts and practices?

Digital Preservation Organization

Digital Curation Centre

Data Deluge Centre

E-Science Institute

9. What were the two drivers to the establishment of the DCC in the United Kingdom?

E-Science and Digital Preservation

Data Deluge and Continuing Access

Digital Preservation and Data Sets

Realization and Insufficiency

10. Who has primarily developed recent understandings and practices of digital curation?

Digital preservationists

Libraries and archives

Personal data users

Scientific communities

11. To which type of information in digital form are the recent understandings and practices of digital curation highly applicable?

Scientific data only

Personal data only

All information in digital form

Archival data only

12. What is digital curation?

The process of backup and ongoing maintenance

Actions required to maintain access to digital materials

Processes applied to digital objects over their life span

Setting standards for planning data collection

13. Which of the following is true about digital curation?

It only involves cultural heritage organizations

It begins after digital objects are created

It does not involve adding value to data sets

It involves stakeholders cutting across disciplinary boundaries

14. Digital curation is a more inclusive concept than:

Digital archiving

Digital information

Both digital archiving and digital information

None of the above

15. What does digital curation emphasize?

Deleting metadata and annotations from digital objects

Adding value to data sets and digital objects

Limiting access to digital materials

Ignoring disciplinary boundaries

16. What is digital curation primarily concerned with?

Inserting additional metadata

Converting uncertainties into measurable and manageable risks

Adding value to data sets and digital objects

A wide range of stakeholders

17. Digital curation is concerned of all who create and use data.

True

False

18. Digital objects is concerned with actively managing data for as long as it continues to be of scholarly, scientific, research, administrative.

True

False

19. How does digital curation improve access to data?

By limiting access to a select few.

By providing reliable and quick access to data.

By slowing down the speed of accessing data.

None of the above.

20. Digital curation procedures assist in improving data quality, ...............................?

Improving the trustworthiness and validity of data.

Limiting data to informal records.

Decreasing the trustworthiness of data.

Reducing the speed of data access.

21. List and describe the Incentives of Digital Curation?

22. In Improving access: Digital curation procedures preserve data and protect them against loss and obsolescence.

True

False

23. How are the new ways of working characterized?

Reliance on traditional computing

Limited creation and management of data sets

Reliance on networked computing and data sets

Minimal use and reuse of large data sets

24. Scholarship is already substantially data-driven, and this will rapidly expand.

True

False

25. Which term is specifically used to refer to research in scientific fields in the context of data-driven scholarship?

Cyberscholarship.

E-research

Cyberinfrastructure.

E-science.

26. Cyberinfrastructure used to refer to what is required for these new ways of working.

True

False

27. Cyberscholarship generates small quantities of data.

True

False

28. How can we solve the challenges of digital curation effectively?

29. What is a fundamental requirement for cyberscholarship?

Availability of data for future use and reuse

Restricted access to data

Limited data analysis capabilities

None of the above

30. The SHERPA project has led to the development of a comprehensive list of skills for effective digital curation, encompassing various tasks and responsibilities.

True

False

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