Description This is an inventory of tools in the BitCurator Environment. For each tool, the workflow step, the accepted input (disk image, directory of files, etc.), the type of user interface (GUI/CLI), links to available documentation, and the tool’s function are all listed. This inventory … Read more →
BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar Jess Farrell (Co-PI), Cal Lee (PI), Hannah Wang (Project Manager) | June 21, 2022 What Does It Take to Teach Born-Digital Archiving and Digital Forensics? Hannah Wang (Project Manager) and Katherine Skinner (Co-PI) | Digital Preservation | National Digital Stewardship Alliance … Read more →
Description This GitHub repository contains sample data originally collected or created for Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class in 2021. The data can be used on its own for testing, teaching, and learning, or it can be used in conjunction with … Read more →
Description These are the slides from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s “Advanced Digital Forensics” SAA class. There are a number of hands-on exercises included. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise is available for free download as a PDF … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise introduces students to forensic artifacts produced by Windows operating systems and tools to analyze them. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to tools for file format analysis, including PRONOM, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee’s SAA “Advanced Digital … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to the National Software Reference Library and the NSRL Lookup command line tool. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The exercise is available for free download as … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students file systems and interpreting file system attributes. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise is … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to methods for extracting hidden data from Microsoft Office files. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ … Read more →
Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to EXIF metadata and give them hands-on experience using Exiftool in the BitCurator environment. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The exercise is available for free download as … Read more →
Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to disk images give them hands-on experience viewing the contents of disk images. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to basic Linux commands in the BitCurator environment. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise … Read more →
Description This assignment introduces students to the BitCurator environment by asking them to download and install the virtual machine, create a disk image using Guymager, and analyze the contents of the disk image .INFO file. It is a hands-on activity that familiarizes students with resources … Read more →
The BitCurator Consortium and the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group are hosting a community discussion on preservation of WARCs (the Web ARChive file format) on June 14 at 12pm ET | 4pm UTC. (See your local time for this event) The … Read more →
Description The BitCuratorEdu project team built a library of datasets for educational, testing, and research purposes. The library can be accessed via the BitCurator Wiki, below. Learning object type Datasets Learning objectives This learning object might be used in a lesson to satisfy the following … Read more →
Description This assignment uses the Digital Curation Centre’s lifecycle model as a conceptual foundation and asks students to identify where they see opportunities to take the Sequential Actions outlined in the model using the BitCurator environment. The assignment is available for free download as a … Read more →
Description This is a paper and project assignment that asks students to review literature on digital forensics’ applications in digital archives, and gain hands-on experience using digital forensics tools to acquire and manage born-digital archival materials. The assignment is available for free download as a … Read more →
Description This assignment engages students in digital curation technology through several self-guided explorations culminating in a presentation. Students have the option of choosing the BitCurator environment as a research subject. Students answer a series of questions that mirror questions a practitioner responsible for making a … Read more →
Description These slides consist of a brief lesson that introduce students to workflows as models, describes process modeling, an in-class “sticky note” exercise, discussion questions, and real-world examples of born-digital processing workflows. This exercise can be implemented in a face-to-face setting with sticky notes, but … Read more →
Description This slide deck can be used or adapted to teach an introduction to the BitCurator environment and tools. Topics covered include: archival principles in relation to digital forensics, levels of representation for digital resources and interaction examples, BitCurator tools and workflows, and the BitCurator … Read more →