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 →
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 BitCurator Consortium was pleased to facilitate a free, public virtual event called Great Question! on April 23, 2021 from 2-3:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4). The recording is available below, along with a “transcript” (Airtable database) of the questions raised and answers shared. … Read more →