Read the following argument carefully.
Information Scientist: Physical museums routinely deaccession—sell or discard—artifacts that are highly redundant or severely degraded. They do this to dedicate their finite storage and maintenance budgets to preserving the most culturally significant pieces. Attempting to preserve every single physical artifact inevitably leads to a degradation in the quality of care for truly important pieces. By the exact same logic, national data centers should implement automated deletion protocols for redundant or corrupted digital records. Attempting to save every byte of data will similarly compromise our ability to secure and maintain critical digital infrastructure.
Which of the following, if true, represent valid points of disanalogy that weaken the information scientist's argument? (Select all that apply)
- Redundant digital records frequently serve as necessary cryptographic backups that actively protect critical infrastructure from data loss, whereas redundant physical artifacts provide no such structural protection to other artifacts.Answer
- The physical deterioration of one museum artifact can spread mold or chemical degradation to adjacent culturally significant pieces, whereas a corrupted digital record poses no risk of spreading corruption to independently stored critical infrastructure.Answer
- CMany prominent physical museums have recently received private endowments specifically earmarked for expanding their physical storage capacities, reducing their need to deaccession items.
- DData centers and physical museums both require highly specialized, energy-intensive climate-control systems to prevent their respective contents from degrading.
- EThe automated deletion protocols used by data centers are developed by software engineers, whereas the deaccession decisions in physical museums are made by boards of expert curators.