Lauren Work and Laura Alagna Archiving and preserving digital content are inherently collaborative and rely on many different partners joining forces to ensure success. This workshop will focus on helping attendees develop and expand collaborative skills that will be useful in engaging with colleagues on … Read more →
Opening Remarks, October 13, 2020
Talk 1: Scalability, automation and open source tools at the British Film Institute (00:01:53) Joanna White The British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Archive recently started a preservation project to convert 3PB of DPX film scans into FFv1 Matroska video files using automation scripts written by … Read more →
Talk One: DiAGRAM – the Digital Archiving Graphical Risk Assessment Model: quantifying digital preservation risks (00:00:00) David Underdown, Hannah Merwood, Alex Green The last 20 years have seen a wide range of digital preservation good practice established, from OAIS to the NDSA Levels of Preservation. … Read more →
Born-digital’s increasing presence in archives necessitates fundamental changes to adequately support, manage, and make this material discoverable. However, work remains siloed in these areas, and is often misunderstood or invisible. Collaboration to sustain this work is challenging due to misconceptions about the labor it entails, … Read more →
The BCC will be offering small-scale born-digital processing workflow assessments on a limited basis in 2021. This will be a member benefit for new and existing BCC members. These workflow assessments will consist of two one-hour sessions with the consultant, the Community Facilitator, and representatives … Read more →
The BitCurator Consortium values a strong, wide base of member institutions in order to achieve its mission to address the needs of the BCC community, including training, collaboration, research, documentation, and integration. In support of this vision, the Membership Committee aims to recruit new members … Read more →
The BCC Code of Conduct Committee has released an updated Code of Conduct and reporting process just in time for the 2020 BitCurator Users Forum. If you are attending the Forum, please read the Code of Conduct prior to joining our virtual space. BCC Members … Read more →
We are proud to offer registration for BUF20 at a sliding scale starting at $0. This year’s Forum features four days of programming. Sessions will be non-concurrent (single-stream) and will run live starting at 11am ET. Each day will include a variety of opportunities for … Read more →
The BCC Membership Committee is excited to announce a new concept for ongoing training and education on digital curation tools and workflows: the How We Use it Here webinar series.
BCC Treasurer, 2020-2021 BCC Executive Council, 2019-2021 Matthew Farrell is Digital Records Archivist with the Duke University Archives and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. He holds an MLS with a concentration in Archives and Records Management from the University of North Carolina … Read more →
Laura Alagna is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries. She has developed and implemented policies and workflows for managing born-digital content at Northwestern, and currently works on integrating digital preservation into Northwestern’s “next generation” repositories. Laura has an undergraduate degree in history from … Read more →
BCC Executive Council, 2020-2022 Kelly Bolding is currently a Processing Archivist at Princeton University Library, where she has worked since 2013. In addition to arranging and describing manuscript collections, she also works on developing workflows for processing born-digital materials, implementing a digital preservation system, and … Read more →
BCC Executive Council, 2019-2021 Amy Berish is an archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center, where she develops workflows for processing legacy digital media as a member of the Processing Team. She also serves as a member of the BitCurator Documentation Working Group to review, test, … Read more →
BCC President, 2021-2022 BCC Executive Council, 2020-2022 Lauren Work is the Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Virginia, where she is responsible for the implementation of preservation strategy and systems for university digital resources. She helps to create workflows and strategies for the sustainable … Read more →
BCC President, 2020-2021 BCC Executive Council, 2019-2021 Brian Dietz is the Digital Program Librarian for Special Collections at NC State University Libraries, where he manages digital archiving, digitization, web and social media archiving, and preservation workflows. Brian has collaborated with archivists and technologists on a … Read more →
BCC Executive Council, 2019-2021 Christopher (Cal) Lee is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches archival administration; records management; digital curation; understanding information technology for managing digital collections; and digital forensics. He … Read more →
Jessica Farrell is the Community Facilitator for Software Preservation Network and the BitCurator Consortium and is co-PI for the BitCuratorEdu project. Her roles in past positions outside of Educopia include project manager, digital curator, corporate archivist, processing archivist, and digitization technician. Jess received her MLIS … Read more →