Part 2. Interviewees Information and Findings:

Interviewee One Name: Ong Kah Hong Age: 22 Occupation: Marketing Executive Studying Major: Media Innovation, Faculty of Creative Multimedia (Graduated) Interview Recording File Name: “Interviewee1.m4a” Results: - View towards digital preservation: ·         Have never heard of digital preservation. ·         Everything store in digital form, so that the next user can access it. ·         Should be accessible using any medium/platform. ·         Should preserve it in good quality. - Views on challenges of digital preservation: ·         Compare to preserving traditional/analogue item, preserving digital material is easier. ·         Preserving traditional material into digital form is difficult. ·         Said that it’s all about the time and effort used on digital preservation. - Views on digital dark ages: ·         People should do more back up such as making more system/platform to access those digital objects. - Expectation: ·         Video showing things to preserve, the process of preserving. ·         A website to talk about digital preservation. ·         Installation which involve interactivity.

Interviewee Two Name: Cheok Tuan Eng Age: 23 Occupation: Student Studying Major: Animation & Visual Effects, Faculty of Creative Multimedia Interview Recording File Name: “Interviewee2.m4a” Results: - View towards digital preservation: ·         Have never heard of digital preservation. ·         Not much view/opinion on digital preservation. - Views on challenges of digital preservation: ·         Think that copyright issue is the main challenge. ·         Not much view/opinion on challenges. ·         Not aware that media storage is fragile. ·         Feel that it’s not secure to store digital data due to data corrupted. - Views on digital dark ages: ·         Everyone is able to access the digital information. ·         No more restriction in accessing it. ·         No more privacy. - Expectation: ·         Preserving something important in digital form. ·         Data got corrupted. ·         Showing the insecure of digital preservation.

Interviewee Three Name: Gary Lim Teck Yi Age: 21 Occupation: Student Studying Major: Advertising Design, Faculty of Creative Multimedia Interview Recording File Name: “Interviewee3.m4a” Results: - View towards digital preservation: ·         Have never heard of digital preservation. ·         Preserving digital art and digital media. - Views on challenges of digital preservation: ·         As compare to preserving analogue item, digital preservation is harder as it needs a lot of man power. ·         Because of too much digital data have to preserve. ·         Preservation technique is hard. ·         Aware that the fragility of storage media, had just bought hard disk for back up purpose. - Views on digital dark ages: ·         Agree that preserving the digital objects now is important, as it will become the history in the future. ·         So that the future generation can access the digital information. ·         Preserve those digital media before it is corrupted. - Expectation: ·         A public event or campaign, telling people to do digital preservation. ·         With good strategy in promoting it. ·         Use music as the concept to introduce people about digital preservation. ·         Because teenagers did not listen to old music, use old music as the initial idea to develop the campaign.

Interviewee Four Name: Cham Yang Hui Age: 20 Occupation: Student Studying Major: Media Arts, Faculty of Creative Multimedia Interview Recording File Name: “Interviewee4.m4a” Results: - View towards digital preservation: ·         Heard of digital preservation during class. ·         Digital preservation is digital material saving in hard disk or computer. ·         Digital camera is like a kind of digital preservation. ·         Documentation of information in digital form, instead of analogue form is a kind of digital preservation. - Views on challenges of digital preservation: ·         Easy to preserve, but easy to lose the digital data as well. ·         Digital objects can be lost simply with a “delete” button. ·         Storage media is not secure, digital materials will get corrupted without notice. ·         Due to that, backup of digital materials is needed. And hence it used up the space of media storage. - Views on digital dark ages: ·         The old digital object is replaced by the new technology. ·         Old digital object did not preserve well and it is lost forever. - Expectation: ·         Having two computer transferring data to each other. ·         Let people to feel secure on saving the digital information in the media storage.

Interviewee Five Name: Tang Wai Yung Age: 22 Occupation: Student Studying Major: Interface Design, Faculty of Creative Multimedia Interview Recording File Name: “Interviewee5.m4a” Results: - View towards digital preservation: ·         Never heard of digital preservation. ·         Preserving the technology for future usage. ·         Not much view/opinion on digital preservation. - Views on challenges of digital preservation: ·         It is not easy because there is too much digital information to be preserved. ·         Select which digital objects to be preserve is the issue. ·         Aware that storage media is not secure. ·         Digital file get corrupted easily, will be affected by virus as well. ·         Making backup file to prevent corrupted. - Views on digital dark ages: ·         Everything will be in digital form in the future. - Expectation: ·         Some history that have not been preserved. ·         Preserve those digital heritages in digital form.