Resources

Introduction to the BitCurator Software Environment

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of the BitCurator Software Environment interface. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

Installing BitCurator: Getting Started with the Virtual Machine

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of the downloading and installing the BitCurator Software Environment as a virtual machine. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Software: Setting up Shared Folders

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of setting up shared folders in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Software: Creating a Disk Image Using Guymager

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of creating disk images in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Software: Safely Mounting Devices

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of safely mounting disks and other devices in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Software: Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of using fiwalk to generate filesystem metadata in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Software: Using Bulk Extractor to Find Potentially Sensitive Information

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of using Bulk Extractor to find potentially sensitive information in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Part 1

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of using the BitCurator Reporting Tool in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: Part 2

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of using the BitCurator Reporting Tool in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video. Part 1 of Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: https://youtu.be/6A4iDWzzEWo

BitCurator Software: Using pyExifToolGUI

BitCurator Consortium

This video provides a brief overview of using pyExifToolGUI to view, edit, and export metadata from image files in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.

BitCurator Consortium Roundtable: The Ethics of Born-Digital Collecting

Alex Chassanoff, BitCurator Consortium

In the Spring and Fall of 2019, the BitCurator Consortium (BCC) will facilitate a series of online roundtable discussions on topics of interest for born-digital cultural heritage communities. Our first round-table took place on March 22 and explored “The Ethics of Born-Digital Collecting.” We were … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Case Studies

Willis H. Ware Damaged 5.25” Floppy Disks

David Tenenholtz

The RAND Corporate Archives serves as the organization’s corporate memory. The Archives collects, preserves, organizes and provides access to materials that document RAND’s story, people and impact from 1948 to the present. Within the archives is the Willis H. Ware Digital Collection (donated by the … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Case Studies

BitCurator: Beyond Environment

Brian Dietz

BitCurator: Beyond Environment This is a modified version of “BitCurator: Beyond Environment,” a talk I delivered remotely at the BitCurator Users Forum 2018, “Living on the Edge: Extending Digital Forensics into New Sectors.” The slides, with notes, are available through the community shared presentation and … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for IT Professionals

Cal Lee, Kam Woods

00:00:00 Cal Lee: Introduction to the BitCuratorEdu project and this webinar 00:06:30 How BitCurator supports LIS curriculum 00:11:30 Examples of digital forensics hardware and workstation setups 00:13:15 Suggested background readings and resources 00:14:55 Overview of the BitCurator environment 00:37:20 Kam Woods: Using and Configuring the BitCurator Environment – Practical Considerations 00:45:14 BitCurator … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu: BitCurator Access and NLP

Cal Lee, Kam Woods

00:00:00 Cal Lee: Introduction to the BitCurator Access Project 00:04:43 Cal Lee: Introduction to the BitCurator NLP Project 00:11:15 Kam Woods: NLP Toolsets: BitCurator Access Webtools, Topic modeling with bitcurator-nlp-gentm, and Entity identification & reporting with bitcurator-nlp-entspan 00:52:30 Q&A

BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for Educators

Katherine Skinner, Cal Lee

00:00:00 Katherine Skinner: Introduction to BitCuratorEdu project 00:03:45 Cal Lee: Introduction to BitCuratorEdu webinars 00:06:24 BitCurator and the BitCurator Consortium 00:48:52 Acquisition, Reporting, Redaction, and Metadata Export tools within BitCurator 01:01:45 Live demonstrations of tools within the BitCurator environment 01:16:00 Q&A About this resource This resource was released by the BitCuratorEdu … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Session 7 – Saving Data Journalism

Katherine Boss, Maria Bustillos, Ben Welsh

This panel discussion follows the “Let’s-do-this-a-thon” session on the intersection of journalism and digital preservation from Day 1 of the BitCurator Users Forum. Leaders in this area will present and analyze challenges in preserving digital journalism, as well as describe current work in this area, … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Session 6 – Lightning Talks

Laura Alagna, Sara Bond, Dianne Dietrich, Cal Lee, Alex Nelson, Keith Pendergrass, Walker Sampson, Tessa Walsh, Lorain Wang, Kam Woods

How reliable are our forensic tools? Working with born digital files requires the use of various tools, and there is an expectation that the software will perform as advertised. The tools do not always work properly, but problems are usually apparent in the form of … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Session 8 – Work Work Work Workflows

Brian Dietz, Julia Kim, Jessica Venlet

Communities of Practice: Building a Foundation for Born-Digital Processing When I arrived at UNC Wilson Special Collections Library in 2016, newly hired in a digital archivist role, I found that roles for born-digital processing work were complex and distributed. This led me to start thinking … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Session 9 – Nuts and Bolts of Digital Archives

Dianne Dietrich, Susan Malsbury, David Teneholtz

A practical approach to working with proprietary file formats At The New York Public Library, archival collections increasingly contain proprietary file formats related to music and video editing, desktop publishing, and design and drafting software programs. This presentation will discuss approaches the Digital Archives Program … Read more →

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