Emily Sommers

BCC Executive Council, 2023-2025 Co-Treasurer, 2023-2024 Since 2016, Emily Sommers has been the Digital Records Archivist at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS), where she oversees the archives’ born-digital holdings and web archives. She was a member of the 2023 BitCurator … Read more →

Shelly Black

BCC Executive Council, 2023-2025 Co-Treasurer, 2023-2024 Shelly Black (she/her) is the Digital Archivist at North Carolina State University Libraries. She is responsible for processing and describing born-digital collections, and developing workflows for their preservation and access. She has contributed to BitCurator documentation and has been … Read more →

Elena Colón-Marrero

BCC Executive Council, 2023-2025 President-Elect, 2023-2024 Elena Colón-Marrero, she/her, is the Archivist for Digital Curation at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. At the Bentley, she is responsible for the preservation and access to born-digital materials. Previously she worked as a digital … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

BitCurator Users Google Group

BitCurator Consortium

The BitCurator Users Google Group is where to go for BitCurator user support. Anyone can join! When writing to the BitCurator Users Group with a support question, it’s helpful to also provide your Ubuntu version and BitCurator version (this can be found by typing “bitcurator … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

BitCurator Support Q&A

Tammy Troup, David Cirella, Dianne Dietrich, Andy Foster, Sam Sfirri, Alison Rhonemus, Jess Whyte, and Kam Woods

The BitCurator community support model relies on: you, the community, the BitCurator Users Google Group for user support, and GitHub to track issues that require development Where can I go for BitCurator support? The BitCurator Users Google Group. The BitCurator Environment Wiki, including the QuickStart … Read more →

University of Michigan

Jesse Johnston, Clinical Assistant Professor, BCC Voting Representative Ricky Punzalan, Associate Professor Matt Adair, Archivist for Digital Imaging and Infrastructure Elena Colon-Marrero, Archivist for Digital Curation Steven Gentry, Archivist for Archival Processing Hilary Severyn, Collection Services Librarian

BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar Recording

Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, and Hannah Wang from the BitCuratorEdu project discuss digital curation educational resources created over the course of the project, including the BitCurator Guide for Educators. The project team discusses these resources, how they can be used and adapted, and future directions … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar

Register for the BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar on June 21 at 12pm ET! (click here for your local time) Join Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, Katherine Skinner, and Hannah Wang from the BitCuratorEdu project to learn about digital curation educational resources created over the course of … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu Resources Available

All resources created by the BitCuratorEdu project are now available on the BitCurator Consortium website! The BitCuratorEdu project team has partnered with the BCC Documentation and Training Committee to make these resources available for digital curation educators, students, and practitioners beyond the end of the … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy and Learning Objectives

Hannah Wang

BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy Statement This statement was created by the BitCuratorEdu project and partners to direct our research and development of learning objects: Digital curation is a broad, interdisciplinary field of scholarship and practice, which includes, among other areas, the application of digital forensics tools … Read more →

Building an Anti-Racist Digital Curation Curriculum Workshop: Facilitators’ Guide

Jessica Farrell, Grace Muñoz, Ricky Punzalan, Hannah Wang

Description This one-hour workshop is a first step for groups of people who want to work in community with each other to include material in their teaching that mitigates harm based on race in collections. It is intended to celebrate the perspectives of practitioner peer … Read more →

Visual Workflow Diagram Translation Exercise

Hannah Wang

Description This is an exercise that asks students to take a visual diagram of a born-digital archiving workflow and translate the visual elements into text-based narrative, using a tabular description template. This lesson uses and adapts deliverables from the OSSArcFlow project (IMLS, 2017-2020). The exercise … Read more →

BitCurator Guide for Educators

Hannah Wang, Jessica Farrell, Christopher A. Lee, Katherine Skinner

Description The BitCurator Guide for Educators is designed to provide instructors with advice, ideas, and materials to support their inclusion of digital forensics concepts, tools, and methods into courses related to the curation of born-digital materials. This Guide is intentionally geared to a broad spectrum … Read more →

Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Screencast Discussion Questions

Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Part 1. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. … Read more →

Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata: Screencast Discussion Questions

Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The … Read more →

Safely Mounting Drives: Screencast Discussion Questions

Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Safely Mounting Devices. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The discussion questions and … Read more →

BCC Annual Election Results 2022-2023

Kelly Bolding

The votes are in from the BitCurator Consortium’s 2022-2023 annual election! Charter Amendments All proposed charter amendments were unanimously approved. Please see our updated charter here: https://bitcuratorconsortium.org/bitcurator-consortium-charter/ Executive Council Welcome to our newest Executive Council members, Annalise Berdini from Princeton University Library, Sally DeBauche from Stanford Libraries, Elizabeth-Anne Johnson from the … Read more →

Sally DeBauche

BCC Executive Council, 2022-2024 Sally DeBauche is a Digital Archivist in the Department of Special Collections at Stanford Libraries. She is responsible for acquiring, processing, and describing born digital collection materials, with a particular focus on developing policy and workflows for processing email collections. She … Read more →

Annalise Berdini

BCC Executive Council, 2022-2024 President, 2023-2024 Annalise Berdini is the Digital Archivist for Princeton University Library Special Collections, where she has worked since 2018. She manages the department’s digital curation program, which includes developing and implementing digital archives workflows, selecting and implementing a digital preservation … Read more →

Elizabeth-Anne Johnson

BCC Executive Council, 2022-2024 Elizabeth-Anne Johnson is Electronic Records Archivist at the University of Calgary Archives & Special Collections, where she’s worked since 2019. Prior to this, she was Digital Archivist at the Yukon Archives. An alumna of the University of Manitoba Archival Studies program, … Read more →

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