Description This is an exercise that asks students to take a visual diagram of a born-digital archiving workflow and translate the visual elements into text-based narrative, using a tabular description template. This lesson uses and adapts deliverables from the OSSArcFlow project (IMLS, 2017-2020). The exercise … Read more →
Description The BitCurator Guide for Educators is designed to provide instructors with advice, ideas, and materials to support their inclusion of digital forensics concepts, tools, and methods into courses related to the curation of born-digital materials. This Guide is intentionally geared to a broad spectrum … Read more →
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Part 1. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. … Read more →
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The … Read more →
Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Safely Mounting Devices. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The discussion questions and … Read more →
Description This survey can be used to gather information about students’ access to technology prior to teaching technology-based lessons. This information can be used to tailor hands-on exercises that may require a specific technology setup (e.g., a Windows operating system or a computer with 8GB … Read more →
Description This is a developing bibliography of readings in digital curation and digital forensics. The bibliography can be accessed via Zotero, below. Learning object type Bibliography More learning objects View all BitCuratorEdu Learning Objects About this resource This resource was released by the BitCuratorEdu project … Read more →
Description This is an inventory of tools in the BitCurator Environment. For each tool, the workflow step, the accepted input (disk image, directory of files, etc.), the type of user interface (GUI/CLI), links to available documentation, and the tool’s function are all listed. This inventory … Read more →
Description This GitHub repository contains sample data originally collected or created for Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class in 2021. The data can be used on its own for testing, teaching, and learning, or it can be used in conjunction with … Read more →
Description These are the slides from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s “Advanced Digital Forensics” SAA class. There are a number of hands-on exercises included. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise is available for free download as a PDF … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise introduces students to forensic artifacts produced by Windows operating systems and tools to analyze them. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to tools for file format analysis, including PRONOM, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee’s SAA “Advanced Digital … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to the National Software Reference Library and the NSRL Lookup command line tool. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The exercise is available for free download as … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students file systems and interpreting file system attributes. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise is … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to methods for extracting hidden data from Microsoft Office files. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ … Read more →
Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to EXIF metadata and give them hands-on experience using Exiftool in the BitCurator environment. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The exercise is available for free download as … Read more →
Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to disk images give them hands-on experience viewing the contents of disk images. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available … Read more →
Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to basic Linux commands in the BitCurator environment. These slides are excerpted from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital Forensics” class. The sample data referenced in these slides is available here: https://github.com/BitCurator/bcc-dfa-sample-data/ The exercise … Read more →
Description This assignment introduces students to the BitCurator environment by asking them to download and install the virtual machine, create a disk image using Guymager, and analyze the contents of the disk image .INFO file. It is a hands-on activity that familiarizes students with resources … Read more →
Description The BitCuratorEdu project team built a library of datasets for educational, testing, and research purposes. The library can be accessed via the BitCurator Wiki, below. Learning object type Datasets Learning objectives This learning object might be used in a lesson to satisfy the following … Read more →