The BitCurator Consortium develops and maintains a library of webinars, workflows, instructional videos, presentations, and other resources useful for born-digital practitioners and adjacent audiences.

These resources come from a variety of sources: BCC committee projects, completed affiliated projects, and ongoing programming and training initiatives.

While much of our content is made open to anyone, some is accessible to members only. Learn more about the benefits of joining the BCC.

BCC members are invited to submit resources to the library – especially workflows, case studies, instructional videos, or presentations. Contact us to learn more.

Featured Resources

Documentation for the BitCurator environment is available on our wiki. Join the BitCurator Users Google Group to get and offer help implementing tools for your workflows.

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

BitCurator Users Google Group

BitCurator Consortium

The BitCurator Users Google Group is where to go for BitCurator user support. Anyone can join! When writing to the BitCurator Users Group with a support question, it’s helpful to also provide your Ubuntu version and BitCurator version (this can be found by typing “bitcurator … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

BitCurator Support Q&A

Tammy Troup, David Cirella, Dianne Dietrich, Andy Foster, Sam Sfirri, Alison Rhonemus, Jess Whyte, and Kam Woods

The BitCurator community support model relies on: you, the community, the BitCurator Users Google Group for user support, and GitHub to track issues that require development Where can I go for BitCurator support? The BitCurator Users Google Group. The BitCurator Environment Wiki, including the QuickStart … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

BitCurator Wiki

BitCurator Consortium

The BitCurator Wiki is the repository for community documentation on the BitCurator environment. It is maintained by the BCC Documentation & Training Committee.

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Teaching Materials

BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy and Learning Objectives

Hannah Wang

BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy Statement This statement was created by the BitCuratorEdu project and partners to direct our research and development of learning objects: Digital curation is a broad, interdisciplinary field of scholarship and practice, which includes, among other areas, the application of digital forensics tools … Read more →

Building an Anti-Racist Digital Curation Curriculum Workshop: Facilitators’ Guide

Jessica Farrell, Grace Muñoz, Ricky Punzalan, Hannah Wang

Description This one-hour workshop is a first step for groups of people who want to work in community with each other to include material in their teaching that mitigates harm based on race in collections. It is intended to celebrate the perspectives of practitioner peer … Read more →

Visual Workflow Diagram Translation Exercise

Hannah Wang

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 →

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Workflows

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New Member Benefit! Workflow Assessments

Hannah Wang

The BCC will be offering small-scale born-digital processing workflow assessments on a limited basis in 2021. This will be a member benefit for new and existing BCC members. These workflow assessments will consist of two one-hour sessions with the consultant, the Community Facilitator, and representatives … Read more →

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Purdue University Workflow

Purdue University

Purdue University Workflow map for born-digital archives and special collections content produced as part of the Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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Penn State University Workflow – Born Digital Content

Penn State University

Penn State University Workflow for born-digital content. Produced as part of Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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Case Studies

BitCurator Consortium Case Studies

Salman Rushdie Archive

Erika Farr, Dorothy Waugh, Emory University

In 1988, the Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini proclaimed a fatwa—or death sentence—on author Salman Rushdie for his depiction of Mohammed in his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. Rushdie subsequently went into hiding, and needed great portability in his writing devices throughout the 10-year … 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 →

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Instructional Videos

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.

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Presentations

Session 1

St John Karp, Pratt Institute; Brock Stuessi, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
03.19.24 |

The Interconnectedness of All Things St John Karp, Pratt Institute It is in the nature of documents to be interrelated. The traditional finding aid presents documents in a flat or hierarchical structure, but documents’ true nature is a web of interconnected relationships. An archivist working … Read more →

Session 7

Karl Blumenthal and Sarah Beth Seymore, Internet Archive
03.21.24 |

Enhancing Use of Born-Digital Collections Using ARCH Understanding how cultural heritage practitioners can utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance access to born-digital collections is a massive barrier to exploratory investigation of AI/ML tools and methods. Yet, computational methods, like text mining and data … Read more →

Session 6

Sibyl Schaefer, UC San Diego
03.20.24 |

Facing Climate Realities: Digital Curation and Climate Change The world is warming at an unprecedented speed and no one is putting on the brakes. A large reason for this is the entanglement of fossil fuel production and our financial systems. This talk will briefly address … Read more →

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Event Recordings

BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar Recording

Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, and Hannah Wang from the BitCuratorEdu project discuss digital curation educational resources created over the course of the project, including the BitCurator Guide for Educators. The project team discusses these resources, how they can be used and adapted, and future directions … Read more →

Great Question! April 2021

BCC Membership Committee
20210423 |

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 →

Cultivating skillsets for collaborative digital preservation proejcts (Workshop)

Lauren Work, Laura Alagna

Lauren Work and Laura Alagna Archiving and preserving digital content are inherently collaborative and rely on many different partners joining forces to ensure success. This workshop will focus on helping attendees develop and expand collaborative skills that will be useful in engaging with colleagues on … Read more →

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