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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 →

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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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Session 10 – Where Does Digital Forensics Fit in the Digital Curation Workflow

Alex Chassanoff, Sam Meister

This panel will discuss the substantial findings and documentation produced in the first year of the OSSArcFlow project, a collaborative effort of the Educopia Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc. … Read more →

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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 →

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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 →

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Session 3 – Journalism and Digital Preservation

Laura Alagna

Several incidents in recent years have demonstrated the necessity of digital preservation in the media: the deletion of the Gothamist, DNAinfo, and LAist sites, and the battle for ownership of Gawker’s content have made it clear that, although journalists and information professionals are in agreement … Read more →

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Session 1 – Nobody Puts Access in the Corner

Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Kelly Bolding, Brian Dietz, Shira Peltzman, Jessica Venlet

At the DLF Forum 2017, members of the DLF Born-Digital Access Group held a working lunch and discussed issues related to preparing and providing access to born digital archival materials. Following that meeting, a subset of the group formed to create, as one of its … Read more →

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One does not simply keep disk images: ethical, risk tolerance, and sustainabilty issues with forensic disk image retention

Keith Pendergrass

Forensic disk images provide the best means of accurately capturing, and ensuring the authenticity of, all of the data on a physical carrier. However, unexpected, deleted, private or sensitive, and system data introduce ethical complexities for archivists and repository administrators when developing disk image retention … Read more →

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The All-Seeing Eye: Digital Archives and Surveillance

Talya Cooper

“Delete the logs” has become a mantra for security experts post-election as organizations work to minimize risk to populations who are often already targeted for surveillance. But what happens when your professional responsibilities as an archivist demand that you preserve the logs? This presentation will … Read more →

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Automated Processing of Disk Images and Directories in BitCurator

Tessa Walsh

As a means to more efficiently process large-scale digital archives and with inspiration from Jess Whyte’s scripting work at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is developing a set of software tools for automating triage, SIP creation, and description of born-digital … Read more →

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BitCurator Access and BitCurator NLP – Updates and Future Directions

Cal Lee, Kam Woods

The BitCurator environment supports a variety of digital curation activities. The BitCurator Access project extended this to the point of interaction with end users, providing and supporting a variety of access mechanisms. We developed tools that support access to disk images through three exploratory approaches: … Read more →

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Developing Improved Disk Image Support in Archivematica: A Project Update

Susan Malsbury, Shira Peltzman

As digital archivists at New York Public Library and the University of California, Los Angeles, we both have a large number of HFS floppy disks in our collections. Our repositories have a focus on collecting in the humanities,and writers and artists in the late-1980s and … Read more →

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More Floppies, Less Process: the Digital Media Log

Bonnie Gordon

This talk will discuss the RAC’s Digital Media Log, a lightweight web app that integrates with ArchivesSpace to efficiently inventory digital media items and log digital forensics and preservation activities. The application is intended to track inventorying and preservation workflows in an automated digital forensics … Read more →

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Inbetweeners: Developing Guidelines and Documentation to Help Those Who Help the Donors

Mary Mellon, Luke Menzies, Lauren Work

Often, those who are doing the nitty gritty digital archiving and those who are working with donors are two separate entities. In these cases, providing strong guidelines, policies, and documentation to help archivists and curators in obtaining and managing born digital content is key to … Read more →

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Lots of Old Onions

Chris Muller, George Blood

Way back in the day, before there was a widely acknowledged set of skills and tools known as Digital Forensics, the boots-on-the ground needed to figure out ways to deal with information from a crazy number of incompatible word processors, minicomputers, and mainframes. The work … Read more →

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All Together Now: Introducing the KryoFlux User Guide

Dorothy Waugh, Shira Peltzman, Jennifer Allen

The KryoFlux, a floppy disk controller card developed by the Software Preservation Society, has become the de facto standard for many digital archives for its ability to safely and effectively capture data from aging floppy disks. Although the KryoFlux is an extremely powerful tool for … Read more →

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Workshop: Testing the BitCurator Waters

Matthew Farrell

Over the course of the day, attendees in the beginner track will participate in a range of activities meant to introduce the BitCurator environment and prepare participants for the proceedings on Day 2 of the User Forum. The morning will start with a brief introduction … Read more →

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Workshop: Diving Deep with BitCurator

BitCurator Consortium

This workshop will be aimed at intermediate to advanced users who have a solid understanding of digital forensics and BitCurator basics, and are looking to extend and advance their knowledge and skills. Topics may include: Repetitive tasks that could benefit from automation yet currently require … Read more →

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Advanced Topics Webinar – bulk_extractor Beyond the Basics

Michael Olson, Sandy Ortiz

This is a recording of a BitCurator Consortium members-only webinar on bulk_extractor: Beyond the Basics. This webinar focused on advanced features, uses, and application of the bulk_extractor software tool, including the following topics: Brief overview of bulk_extractor basic functionality and outputs Example use cases for … Read more →

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Panel: Beyond Floppy Disks

Brian Dietz, Bertram Lyons, Porter Olsen

Cultural heritage institutions are collecting a larger variety of media than ever before including external hard drives, computers, and files from hosted cloud services. While there are established workflows and best practices for smaller media objects, many institutions are just now beginning to tackle these … Read more →

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