10:15-11:15am Pacific / 1:15-2:15pm Eastern Amy Berish, Rockefeller Archive Center; Jerman Brenning, Mid Sweden University; Alison Rhonemus, New York Public Library; Tessa Walsh, Artefactual A panel discussion on independent learning with BitCurator, including some technical aspects of how to get started and transitioning from being … Read more →
9:00-10:00am Pacific / 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Jessica Farrell, BitCurator Consortium; Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition; Lauren Sorensen, Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project A panel discussion on recent studies and efforts in continuing education to provide training in digital preservation and curation … Read more →
8:15 am – 9:20am Pacific / 11:15 am – 12:20pm Eastern Leveling Up on Preservation: Using BitCurator Reports to Better Preserve State Archives Materials Jamie Patrick-Burns, State Archives of North Carolina In 2020 the State Archives of NC (SANC) adopted a “levels of preservation” document … Read more →
1:15pm – 2:15pm Pacific / 4:15pm – 5:15pm Eastern Legal & Ethical Due Diligence for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections Kate Dundon, University of California Santa Cruz; Jessika Drmacich, Williams College In February 2020, the DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG) identified a need for … Read more →
12:00pm – 1:00pm Pacific / 3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern What Would You QEMU? Ethan Gates, Yale University Library QEMU (Quick EMUlator) is a powerful open-source program for emulation and virtual machine management. In this lightning talk, I will discuss its potential application in digital archive … Read more →
9:15am-10:00am Pacific / 12:15pm-1:00pm Eastern Virtual Reading Rooms: Remote Access in Ethical and Responsible Ways Shelly Black, North Carolina State University; Annalise Berdini, Princeton University; Greg Cram, The New York Public Library Virtual reading rooms provide remote, mediated access to digitized and born-digital archival materials … Read more →
8:30 am – 9:35am Pacific / 11:30 am-12:35pm Eastern DARTing to the Future: Remote File Transfers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Christina Velazquez Fidler, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Diamond, APTrust During the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, The Bancroft Library explored how … Read more →
12:45pm – 2:15pm Pacific / 3:45pm – 5:15pm Eastern Intro to Digital Forensics/BitCurator Amy Berish, Rockefeller Archive Center; David Cirella, Yale University; Satya Miller, University of Ottawa; Katie Martin, Rockefeller Archive Center; Hannah Wang, Educopia Institute In the past, the “Intro to Digital Forensics” class … Read more →
9:30am – 10:30am Pacific / 12:30pm – 1:30pm Eastern Restart It Again: Troubleshooting in Context Nick Krabbenhoeft, Ben Turkus, and Alison Rhonemus, New York Public Library; Caroline Gil Rodríguez Troubleshooting isn’t something that should be approached haphazardly. And unfortunately, there is little available training in … Read more →
1:00pm-2:30pm Pacific / 4:00-5:30pm Eastern Fostering Meaningful Student Worker Experience Jessica Venlet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries Libraries, Wilson Special Collections; Clare Carlson, Lindahl Reed Inc. Staffing for digital preservation is a known challenge and many of us who manage digital archives … Read more →
10:30am – 11:30am Pacific / 1:30pm – 2:30pm Eastern To Disk Image, Or Not to Disk Image?: Identifying Potential Factors for Disk Imaging in Digital Archival Workflows Elise Tanner, UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture; Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University Library; Lara Friedman-Shedlov, … Read more →
The BCC Membership Committee is pleased to announce that University of Pennsylvania has joined the BCC! Welcome to: Rachel Appel, Digital Preservation Librarian (UPenn voting representative) Allison Olsen, Digital Archivist Sarah Oswald, Archivist Sam Sfirri, Processing Archivist Our newest members are practitioners from across the … Read more →
BCC President-Elect, 2021-2022 BCC Executive Council, 2021-2023 Alice Prael is the Digital Archivist for Yale Special Collections at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she manages a centralized digital accessioning service that provides support for accessioning born digital materials from across the special … Read more →
BCC Treasurer, 2021-2022 BCC Executive Council, 2021-2023 George Apodaca is currently the Digital Archivist/Digital Asset Manager at the Archives of American Art — a research unit embedded within the Smithsonian Institution — where he was worked since 2018. In addition to managing the Archives of … Read more →
BCC Executive Council, 2021-2023 Joe Carrano is a Digital Archivist in the Department of Distinctive Collections at MIT Libraries where he develops and partakes in workflows to process born-digital material, preserve, and provide access to digital content. He was formerly a National Digital Stewardship Resident … Read more →
Rachel Appel, Digital Preservation Librarian Allison Olsen, Digital Archivist Sam Sfirri, Archivist Sarah Oswald, Archivist
The BitCuratorEdu team in collaboration with the BitCurator Consortium is excited to announce a virtual symposium following the 2021 BitCurator Users Forum! The BitCuratorEdu Educators’ Summit will bring together digital curation practitioners, peer trainers, and graduate students with library and information science instructors from both … Read more →
The votes are in from the BitCurator Consortium 2021-2022 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, George Apodaca Collett from the Smithsonian Institution Archives of … Read more →
The BCC Membership Committee is excited to invite you to participate in the BCC Peer Mentorship Program! The goals for this new program are twofold: to orient people to the BCC, encouraging them to build relationships and get involved; and to facilitate professional mentorship around … Read more →
We are thrilled to introduce three BitCurator Consortium Executive Council candidates! In May 2021, the BCC will elect three candidates to serve 2021-2023 terms. George Apodaca Bio George Apodaca is currently the Digital Archivist/Digital Asset Manager at the Archives of American Art — a research … Read more →