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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
(click here for your local time) The Students & New Professionals Coffee Hour, a collaboration between the BitCurator Consortium and the BitCuratorEdu Project, will be open to students and new professionals who are not members of the BitCurator Consortium, as well as BCC members. At … Read more →
(click here for your local time) The BitCurator Help Desk, a collaboration between the BitCurator Consortium and the BitCuratorEdu Project, will be an event open to students and educators who are not members of the BitCurator Consortium, as well as BCC members. Attendees will have … Read more →
(click here for your local time) This community call, a collaboration between the BitCurator Consortium and the BitCuratorEdu Project, will be open to students and educators who are not members of the BitCurator Consortium, as well as BCC members. This call is an opportunity for … Read more →
Open to all! The two-day forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital forensics and related digital analysis workflows with hands-on activities for users at all levels of experience with the BitCurator environment, digital forensics methods in general, and other tools for use … Read more →
1:00-2:00pm Pacific / 4:00-5:00pm Eastern Nick Connizzo, Independent Archivist; Nancy McGovern, MIT; Kelsey O’Connell, Northwestern University; Kari Smith, MIT; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project A workshop on creating an advocacy plan for installing and implementing BitCurator at your school or institution, based on the BitCurator advocacy … Read more →
11:30am-12:30pm Pacific / 2:30-3:30pm Eastern Jessica Farrell, BitCuratorEdu Project; Grace Muñoz, UCLA; Ricky Punzalan, University of Michigan iSchool; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project Recent events such as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on minoritized communities, ongoing police brutality and anti-Black violence, and the increasing number of … Read more →
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 →