Course: Open Source toolset for digital preservation

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- Announcements Forum
Vocabularies / Glossaries
Before proceeding, it is recommended that you review the glossaries
https://training.eark.online/mod/glossary/view.php?id=36
- Crossword on digital preservation vocabulary Game
  
  Complete the activity
Using Open Source tools
Check sums
- What is a checksum Page
- Some available tools Page
- Calculate checksums and encodings Interactive Content
  
  Complete the activity
- buzzwords on checksums Interactive Content
- Exam on checksums Quiz
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  The activity Calculate checksums and encodings is marked complete
  
  The activity buzzwords on checksums is marked complete
Content and metadata
- Basics of content & metadata retrieval Page
- Launch Apache Tika Interactive Content
  
  Complete the activity
- SampleFiles
  
  Download and extract this zip file. It contains two files. 3.pdf and 4.eml. You will need both of these files in many of the following tasks.
- Check the metadata and plain text content with Tika from 3.pdf file and answer the questions Interactive Content
  
  Not available unless: The activity Launch Apache Tika is marked complete
- Check the metadata for 4.eml file Interactive Content
  
  Not available unless: The activity Launch Apache Tika is marked complete
File types
- Recognising filetypes Page
- Start Droid and check its help section Interactive Content
- Filetype-samples
  
  Download the zip file and extract its content. Zip file contains four files (corrupted-endless, File2, File3 and urgent-message-from-boss.docx.exe) Even though the last one seems like a runnable exe file it is not harmful in any way and does not contain viruses etc.!
- Droid file detection Interactive Content
  
  Not available unless: The activity Start Droid and check its help section is marked complete
Validations
- PDF/A validations
- Validating PDF /A files Page
- 3.pdf validation Interactive Content
- 8.pdf File
  
  Download this pdf file and use veraPDF to validate it. Then proceed to the assignment below without closing the validator.
- 8.pdf assignment Interactive Content
- Image validations
- Image samples File
  
  Download this zip file, extract its content and complete the assignments.
- jhove assignments Interactive Content

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Topic outline

General

Vocabularies / Glossaries

Using Open Source tools

Check sums

Content and metadata

File types

Validations