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Great Question! session

The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) invites you to attend the upcoming Great Question! session on Friday, November 22 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Great Question! a staple event of the BitCurator Consortium, is your chance to ask the community anything related to digital archives and … Read more →

Session 7

Karl Blumenthal and Sarah Beth Seymore, Internet Archive

Enhancing Use of Born-Digital Collections Using ARCH Understanding how cultural heritage practitioners can utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance access to born-digital collections is a massive barrier to exploratory investigation of AI/ML tools and methods. Yet, computational methods, like text mining and data … Read more →

GREAT QUESTION! SESSION – March 21, 2024

Membership Committee

Great Question!, a staple of the BitCurator Forum, is your chance to ask the community anything related to digital archives and curation. Learn more by reading the Participant Guide.

Session 6

Sibyl Schaefer, UC San Diego

Facing Climate Realities: Digital Curation and Climate Change The world is warming at an unprecedented speed and no one is putting on the brakes. A large reason for this is the entanglement of fossil fuel production and our financial systems. This talk will briefly address … Read more →

Session 5

Dana Reijerkerk, Drexel University and Temple University Libraries; kYmberly Keeton, University of North Texas

The Relational Possibilities Data Art Project: Remixing, Decolonizing, and Connecting Digital Community Archives and Data Science This talk explores the relational possibilities between art, data science, generative artificial intelligence, and born-digital materials in cloud-based digital ecosystems by celebrating the creativity of a digital community archive … Read more →

Session 4

Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University Library; Elizabeth-Anne Johnson, University of Calgary; Keith Pendergrass, Harvard Business School; Farrell, Duke University Libraries

Tool Assessment and Selection: The DANNNG Tool Selection Factors in Action While digital archives practitioners often chose between a prescriptive set of software tools for their workflows a decade ago, today’s digital archives tool landscape is radically altered. As our community has grown in number … Read more →

Session 3 – Lightning Talks

Doreen Dixon, Drake University; Keith Pendergrass, Harvard Business School

New Archivist at Work: Developing a Digital Preservation Program Doreen Dixon, Drake University There is always an adjustment period when starting a new job and learning new skills. Managing the learning curve associated with this adjustment period might include activities such as finding support, asking … Read more →

Session 2

Brenna Edwards, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; Hyeeyoung Kim, Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin; Hannah Wang, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration; David Tenenholtz, The RAND Corporation

Digital Archiving in the BitCurator Era: Perspectives from SILS Alumni The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been participating in the BitCurator Project since its inception and has graduated many digital archivists into the … Read more →

Session 1

St John Karp, Pratt Institute; Brock Stuessi, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

The Interconnectedness of All Things St John Karp, Pratt Institute It is in the nature of documents to be interrelated. The traditional finding aid presents documents in a flat or hierarchical structure, but documents’ true nature is a web of interconnected relationships. An archivist working … Read more →

GREAT QUESTION! SESSION – March 19, 2024

Membership Committee

Great Question!, a staple of the BitCurator Forum, is your chance to ask the community anything related to digital archives and curation. Learn more by reading the Participant Guide.

BitCurator Forum 2024

The BitCurator Forum brings together representatives of all levels of experience from libraries, archives, museums, and related professions engaged in (or considering) digital archives work. The Forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital forensics, curation, and related digital analysis workflows. There will … Read more →

BitCurator Forum 2023

The BitCurator Forum brings together representatives of all levels of experience from libraries, archives, museums, and related professions engaged in (or considering) digital archives work. The Forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital forensics, curation, and related digital analysis workflows. There will … Read more →

Session 3

Exploring “Good Enough:” Using the NDSA Levels of Preservation to Establish a Shared Standard Brenna Edwards, Hyeeyoung Kim, and Christy Toms, University of Texas Austin The University of Texas at Austin Digital Preservation Group (UT DigiPres) formed a new working group in September 2022 to … Read more →

Workshop 4: BitCurator Environment Updates 2023

BCC Software Development Committee The BitCurator Environment (BCE) began as an effort “to develop a system for collecting professionals that incorporates the functionality of many digital forensics tools,” and grew with the support of the members of the BitCurator Consortium (BCC). The independent, member-led community … Read more →

Session 2

Implementing Privacy Reviews in Digital Archival Collections Annie Schweikert and Victor Aguilar III, Stanford Libraries Stanford Libraries’ digital collections contain personally identifiable information and other forms of high-risk data, such as student, medical, and otherwise sensitive records. Archives staff must abide by archival ethics, state … Read more →

Session 1

Qiwi: Building a New Open Source App for Archivists Ethan Gates, Yale University Library At BUF 2021, I presented a lightning talk on potential archival and curation uses for QEMU, an open source emulator. As a follow up, I will present Qiwi (https://gitlab.com/eg-tech/qiwi), a graphical … Read more →

Workshop 3: Building a new skill takes time and directed effort: a practice plan for learning the command line

This workshop will not be recorded Workshop registration limit: 30 participants Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University Library; Farrell, Matthew, Duke University Libraries; Brian Dietz, NC State University Libraries There is a lot of value in learning to work at the command line: it can be more … Read more →

Workshop 2: Introduction to Using the Command Line in your BitCurator environment

Workshop registration limit: 30 participants Jessica Whyte, University of Toronto, with help from Andy Foster, Monique Lassere, Ken Lui, and Tessa Walsh  This workshop is a gentle introduction to the command-line environment, but with a BitCurator slant. The topics we’ll cover are: Knowing your environment … Read more →

Workshop 1: THE BITS IN THE BYTES: Understanding File Format Identification

Workshop registration limit: 30 participants Andrea Hricíková, Francesca Mackenzie, Andrey Kotov, and Kathryn Phelps, The UK National Archives During this workshop, attendees will gain hands-on experience in file format analysis and understand why this can be helpful during the day-to-day. Alongside this it will provide … 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 →

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