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| 2015-01-07 | A Content Model for Disk Images | A presentation of how to model the data collected with BitCurator This content is shared for reuse with a Creative … | Matthew Farrell, Duke University Libraries | presentations resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | A Pinch of Salt: Creating Customized BitCurator builds | Have you ever wanted to customize the BitCurator environment? Thanks to decisions made by the BitCurator developers, modifications can be … | David Cirella | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | Adding “Why” Questions to the BitCurator QuickStart Guide to Build a Comprehensive Graduate Archival Teaching/Learning Module | The BitCurator QuickStart Guide, designed as a software installation and application manual, provides step-by-step instructions for practitioners to download and … | Jane Zhang | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-26 | Advanced Digital Forensics Slides | Description These are the slides from Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s “Advanced Digital Forensics” SAA class. There are a number … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2016-11-29 | Advanced Topics Webinar – BCA Webtools | This is a recording of a BitCurator Consortium webinar on BitCurator Access WebTools, the third of a series of webinars … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods, BitCurator Consortium | event-recordings events past-events resources | bitcurator-access-project bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-02-16 | Advanced Topics Webinar – bulk_extractor Beyond the Basics | This is a recording of a BitCurator Consortium members-only webinar on bulk_extractor: Beyond the Basics. This webinar focused on advanced … | Michael Olson, Sandy Ortiz | presentations resources | bitcurator-users |
| 2016-02-12 | Advanced Topics Webinar – Kryoflux | This webinar’s focus is on the features, uses, and application of the Kryoflux hardware interface and software tool, including the … | Dorothy Waugh, Matthew Farrell, Walker Sampson | event-recordings events past-events resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2016-06-02 | Advanced Topics Webinar – Scripting in BitCurator | This webinar’s focus is on scripting within the BitCurator environment and is led by Dianne Dietrich (Cornell University) and Jarrett … | Dianne Dietrich, Jarrett Drake | event-recordings events past-events resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | All Together Now: Introducing the KryoFlux User Guide | The KryoFlux, a floppy disk controller card developed by the Software Preservation Society, has become the de facto standard for … | Dorothy Waugh, Shira Peltzman, Jennifer Allen | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators program-committee prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | Automated Processing of Disk Images and Directories in BitCurator | As a means to more efficiently process large-scale digital archives and with inspiration from Jess Whyte’s scripting work at the … | Tessa Walsh | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-25 | Basic Linux Commands Exercise | Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to basic Linux commands in the BitCurator environment. These slides are … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-26 | BCC Digital Forensics Sample Data | Description This GitHub repository contains sample data originally collected or created for Cal Lee and Kam Woods’s SAA “Advanced Digital … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators sample-data |
| 2022-10-25 | BCC Strategic Plan | BitCurator Strategic Directions 2022-2024 1. Purpose The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is an independent, community-led membership association which builds a community … | BitCurator Consortium | documentation resources | executive-council |
| 2012-08-12 | Beineke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library | This workflow was documented by Martin Gengenbach for his 2012 master’s thesis. | Martin Gengenbach, Yale University | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | BitCurator Access and BitCurator NLP – Updates and Future Directions | The BitCurator environment supports a variety of digital curation activities. The BitCurator Access project extended this to the point of … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-13 | BitCurator and the DCC Lifecycle Model Assignment | Description This assignment uses the Digital Curation Centre’s lifecycle model as a conceptual foundation and asks students to identify where … | Devan Donaldson | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2020-08-26 | BitCurator Consortium Bibliography | The BitCurator Consortium Bibliography is a living, curated Zotero library of publications and presentations related to digital forensics and its … | BItCurator Consortium | documentation resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-26 | BitCurator Consortium Charter | BitCurator Consortium Charter Approved by a vote of the BitCurator Consortium membership on June 6, 2022. First established: June 9, … | resources | executive-council | |
| 2020-07-24 | BitCurator Consortium Roundtable: practice // values : situating digital forensics tools in archives | A discussion of different experiences mediating between software tools and born-digital materials and the ethical considerations of this work. | BItCurator Consortium | event-recordings events featured-resources past-events resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-03-27 | BitCurator Consortium Roundtable: The Ethics of Born-Digital Collecting | In the Spring and Fall of 2019, the BitCurator Consortium (BCC) will facilitate a series of online roundtable discussions on … | Alex Chassanoff, BitCurator Consortium | event-recordings events past-events resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2018-05-22 | BitCurator Consortium Webinar – BitCurator NLP Project | This is a recording of a BitCurator Consortium public webinar on “BitCurator NLP Project”. The BitCurator NLP project has been … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods, BitCurator Consortium | event-recordings events past-events resources | bitcurator-nlp-project bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-06-15 | BitCurator Guide for Educators | Description The BitCurator Guide for Educators is designed to provide instructors with advice, ideas, and materials to support their inclusion … | Hannah Wang, Jessica Farrell, Christopher A. Lee, Katherine Skinner | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2020-08-26 | BitCurator Quickstart Guide | The Quickstart Guide includes detailed instructions to assist you in setting up the BitCurator virtual machine (and/or installing the environment … | BitCurator Consortium | documentation featured-resources resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Creating a Disk Image Using Guymager | This video provides a brief overview of creating disk images in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Safely Mounting Devices | This video provides a brief overview of safely mounting disks and other devices in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Setting up Shared Folders | This video provides a brief overview of setting up shared folders in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Using Bulk Extractor to Find Potentially Sensitive Information | This video provides a brief overview of using Bulk Extractor to find potentially sensitive information in the BitCurator Software Environment. … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Using fiwalk to Generate Filesystem Metadata | This video provides a brief overview of using fiwalk to generate filesystem metadata in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-06-04 | BitCurator Software: Using pyExifToolGUI | This video provides a brief overview of using pyExifToolGUI to view, edit, and export metadata from image files in the … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-04 | BitCurator Talking Points Database | Description The BitCurator Talking Points Database was created to assist information professionals who are trying to advocate for support or … | Hannah Wang, Nick Connizzo, Nancy McGovern, Kelsey O'Connell, Kari Smith, Suzanne Stasiulatis | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2020-10-16 | BitCurator Users Forum 2020 Shared Links | Looking for a link shared in the chat during a BitCurator Users Forum 2020 session? Follow the link below to … | Brian Dietz | documentation resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers documentation-training-committee educators it-managers-units program-committee prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | BitCurator Users Forum Livestream Recording | The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is hosting the 2019 BitCurator Users Forum at Yale University on October 24 and 25. The … | BitCurator Consortium | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators program-committee prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | BitCurator Users Forum Livestream Recording | “The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is hosting the 2019 BitCurator Users Forum at Yale University on October 24 and 25. The … | BitCurator Consortium | resources | program-committee |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Annotated Features | This video demonstrates using the BitCurator Annotated Features tool. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Data Triage with Nautilus Scripts in BitCurator | This video demonstrates performing data triage in BitCurator using Nautilus scripts. It was produced as part of a series of … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Generating Reports | This video demonstrates using the BitCurator Reports Generator. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Installing BitCurator via Virtual Machine | This video demonstrate how to install BitCurator using the BitCurator virtual machine and VirtualBox. It was produced as part of … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Run All Tool | This video demonstrates using the BitCurator “run all” tool. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Safely Mounting Disks | This video demonstrates safely mounting disks in the BitCurator environment. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Using Bulk Extractor to Locate Potentially Sensitive Information | This video demonstrates using Bulk Extractor in the BitCurator environment to locate potentially sensitive information such as email addresses and … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Using fiwalk to Generate DFXML | This video demonstrates using fiwalk in the BitCurator environment to generate DFXML. It was produced as part of a series … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Using Guymager to Image Disks | This video demonstrates using Guymager in the BitCurator environment to image disks and package information about the imaging process with … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: View and export information from HFS-formatted disk images | This video demonstrates viewing and exporting information from HFS, HFS+, and other Apple-formatted disk images in the BitCurator environment. It … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-04-29 | BitCurator v.0.8: Viewing, editing, and exporting metadata from image files | This video demonstrates viewing, editing, and exporting metadata from image files in the BitCurator environment. It was produced as part … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-06 | BitCurator Wiki | The BitCurator Wiki is the repository for community documentation on the BitCurator environment. It is maintained by the BCC Documentation … | BitCurator Consortium | documentation featured-resources resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-15 | BitCurator-EaaSI Hackathon | Extensive professional work has gone into using and documenting forensic tools for bit-for-bit preservation of born-digital materials. Less thoroughly documented … | Ethan Gates, Hannah Wang | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators program-committee prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2018-12-04 | BitCurator: Beyond Environment | BitCurator: Beyond Environment This is a modified version of “BitCurator: Beyond Environment,” a talk I delivered remotely at the BitCurator … | Brian Dietz | case-studies resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators program-committee prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-27 | BitCuratorEdu Bibliography | Description This is a developing bibliography of readings in digital curation and digital forensics. The bibliography can be accessed via … | Hannah Wang, Cal Lee | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-06-20 | BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy and Learning Objectives | BitCuratorEdu Curriculum Philosophy Statement This statement was created by the BitCuratorEdu project and partners to direct our research and development … | Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2021-10-15 | BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: BitCurator Advocacy Workshop | A workshop on creating an advocacy plan for installing and implementing BitCurator at your school or institution, based on the … | Nick Connizzo, Independent Archivist; Nancy McGovern, MIT; Kelsey O’Connell, Northwestern University; Kari Smith, MIT; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2021 bitcuratoredu-project educators educators-summit students |
| 2021-10-15 | BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: Digital Preservation & Curation Training Roundtable | A panel discussion on recent studies and efforts in continuing education to provide training in digital preservation and curation to … | Jessica Farrell, BitCurator Consortium; Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition; Lauren Sorensen, Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2021 bitcuratoredu-project educators educators-summit students |
| 2021-10-15 | BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: Getting Started: Independent Learning with Digital Forensics Tools | A panel discussion on independent learning with BitCurator, including some technical aspects of how to get started and transitioning from … | Amy Berish, Rockefeller Archive Center; Jerman Brenning, Mid Sweden University; Alison Rhonemus, New York Public Library; Tessa Walsh, Artefactual | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2021 bitcuratoredu-project educators educators-summit students |
| 2022-05-04 | BitCuratorEdu Guidelines for Hosting Remote Internships | Description These guidelines are aimed at information professionals who wish to provide remote internship opportunities to students who seek practical … | Jess Farrell, Sheridan Sayles, Meg Tuomala, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-06-23 | BitCuratorEdu Resource Release Webinar Recording | Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, and Hannah Wang from the BitCuratorEdu project discuss digital curation educational resources created over the course … | Jess Farrell, Cal Lee, Hannah Wang | event-recordings resources | bitcuratoredu-project |
| 2022-05-27 | BitCuratorEdu Tool Inventory | Description This is an inventory of tools in the BitCurator Environment. For each tool, the workflow step, the accepted input … | Hannah Wang, Cal Lee | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2018-10-04 | BitCuratorEdu: BitCurator Access and NLP | 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: … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | instructional-videos resources | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2018-09-27 | BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for Educators | 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, … | Katherine Skinner, Cal Lee | instructional-videos resources | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2018-10-11 | BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for IT Professionals | 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 … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | instructional-videos resources | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2016-01-15 | Breakouts: Where Should Access Happen? | As processes for acquiring, analyzing, and describing electronic records stabilize, institutions invariably consider access to such materials. Where and how … | BitCurator Consortium | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2016 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | Bringing BC Tools and Strategies to Windows | Indiana University started using the BitCurator Environment in 2015 and by 2017 staff had deployed two dedicated workstations in our … | Mike Shallcross | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2016-06-26 | British Library Workflow | “Flashback” workflow for legacy content extraction. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license. | British Library | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-24 | Building a Community of Digital Curation Educators | This workshop will be a series of facilitated participatory discussions and activities that will identify answers and then develop community … | Jess Farrell, Alex Chassanoff | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcuratoredu-project educators program-committee |
| 2022-06-17 | Building an Anti-Racist Digital Curation Curriculum Workshop: Facilitators’ Guide | Description This one-hour workshop is a first step for groups of people who want to work in community with each … | Jessica Farrell, Grace Muñoz, Ricky Punzalan, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2020-10-16 | Closing Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Laura Alagna | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2021-11-03 | Creating a Disk Image Using Guymager: Screencast Discussion Questions | Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Creating a Disk Image Using … | Cal Lee, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators screencast-discussion-questions |
| 2021-11-03 | Cross-Institutional Workflow Analysis Exercise | Description This is an exercise that asks students to select workflow diagrams from two different institutions and analyze how they … | Rhiannon Bettivia, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators ossarcflow ossarcflow-learning-objects |
| 2020-10-14 | Cultivating skillsets for collaborative digital preservation proejcts (Workshop) | Lauren Work and Laura Alagna Archiving and preserving digital content are inherently collaborative and rely on many different partners joining … | Lauren Work, Laura Alagna | event-recordings presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators it-managers-units prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2022-05-04 | Curating Potentially Sensitive Information in Digital Collections | Description In this lesson, students learn why and how to identify personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive information within … | Christopher (Cal) Lee, Kam Woods, Simson Garfinkel | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-13 | Datasets Library | Description The BitCuratorEdu project team built a library of datasets for educational, testing, and research purposes. The library can be … | Jess Farrell | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators sample-data |
| 2017-04-28 | Developing Improved Disk Image Support in Archivematica: A Project Update | As digital archivists at New York Public Library and the University of California, Los Angeles, we both have a large … | Susan Malsbury, Shira Peltzman | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-26 | DFXML Library | Digital Forensics XML (DFXML) is the effort to create an XML schema to allow for easy interoperability between different forensic … | Simson Garfinkel | documentation resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-26 | Digital Corpora | DigitalCorpora.org is a website of digital corpora for use in computer forensics education research. All of the disk images, memory … | Simson Garfinkel | documentation resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-06-02 | Digital Curation Pre-Class Survey | Description This survey can be used to gather information about students’ access to technology prior to teaching technology-based lessons. This … | Grant Hurley | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-13 | Digital Curation Technologies Assignment | Description This assignment engages students in digital curation technology through several self-guided explorations culminating in a presentation. Students have the … | Devan Donaldson | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2020-08-26 | Digital Forensics and Archives | How do you secure and preserve the digital historical record? How do you collect it without changing it? More than … | BitCurator Consortium | documentation resources | bitcurator-users current-members documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-13 | Digital Forensics Paper and Project Assignment | Description This is a paper and project assignment that asks students to review literature on digital forensics’ applications in digital … | Jane Zhang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-25 | Disk Images Exercise | Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to disk images give them hands-on experience viewing the contents of disk … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2012-08-12 | Duke University Archives | This workflow was documented by Martin Gengenbach for his 2012 master’s thesis. | Martin Gengenbach, Duke University Libraries | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-25 | Exiftool Exercise | Description This exercise is meant to introduce students to EXIF metadata and give them hands-on experience using Exiftool in the … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-25 | Extracting Data from Office Documents Exercise | Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to methods for extracting hidden data from Microsoft Office files. These … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2022-05-25 | File System Attributes Exercise | Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students file systems and interpreting file system attributes. These slides are excerpted … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2013-09-30 | From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics into Practice in Collecting Institutions | This paper examines the application of digital forensics methods to materials in collecting institutions – particularly libraries, archives and museums. … | Christopher A. Lee, Kam Woods, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Alexandra Chassanoff | resources | bitcurator-project |
| 2022-05-04 | Getting Started with the Virtual Machine: Screencast Discussion Questions | Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Getting Started with the Virtual … | Cal Lee, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators screencast-discussion-questions |
| 2020-10-15 | Great Question | Open session where people can ask questions to the entire audience anonymously. Anything goes! These could be questions related to … | Joe Carrano | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators it-managers-units prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2021-11-17 | Great Question! | Open session where people can ask questions to the entire audience anonymously. Anything goes! These could be questions related to … | Membership & Program Committee | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2021 educators students |
| 2021-04-15 | Great Question! April 2021 | The BitCurator Consortium was pleased to facilitate a free, public virtual event called Great Question! on April 23, 2021 from … | BCC Membership Committee | event-recordings past-events resources events | current-members educators membership-committee prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-13 | Hidden depths: Illuminating the extent of invisible systems, born-digital, and collections management work (Workshop) | Born-digital’s increasing presence in archives necessitates fundamental changes to adequately support, manage, and make this material discoverable. However, work remains … | Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, Mark A. Matienzo, Shira Peltzman, and Charlie Macquarie | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2019-10-24 | How BitCurator is Helping to Save a Decade of Lost Photographs | In 2016, the Goddard Archives became custodians of approximately 7,000 optical disks that span a decade of Goddard Space Flight … | Jessica Deibert | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | Inbetweeners: Developing Guidelines and Documentation to Help Those Who Help the Donors | Often, those who are doing the nitty gritty digital archiving and those who are working with donors are two separate … | Mary Mellon, Luke Menzies, Lauren Work | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-18 | Installation of BitCurator VM and Introduction to Disk Imaging Assignment | Description This assignment introduces students to the BitCurator environment by asking them to download and install the virtual machine, create … | Karen Gracy | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2019-06-04 | Installing BitCurator: Getting Started with the Virtual Machine | This video provides a brief overview of the downloading and installing the BitCurator Software Environment as a virtual machine. BitCurator … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-13 | Introduction to BitCurator Slide Deck | Description This slide deck can be used or adapted to teach an introduction to the BitCurator environment and tools. Topics … | Cal Lee | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators |
| 2019-06-04 | Introduction to the BitCurator Software Environment | This video provides a brief overview of the BitCurator Software Environment interface. This content is shared for reuse with a … | BitCurator Consortium | instructional-videos resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-04 | Introduction to the BitCurator Software Environment: Screencast Discussion Questions | Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Introduction to the BitCurator Software … | Cal Lee, Hannah Wang | resources teaching-materials | bitcuratoredu-project educators screencast-discussion-questions |
| 2016-01-15 | Lightning Talks: Not Your Average BitCurator: How Repositories are Using BitCurator Tools in Different Ways | As institutions become exposed to alternative digital forensic tools and their individual strengths and limitations, they are exploring the benefits … | Matthew Farrell, Don Mennerich, Ben Goldman, Elizabeth Charlton, Jarrett Drake, Doug White, Euan Cochrane, Kari Smith | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2016 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | Lots of Old Onions | Way back in the day, before there was a widely acknowledged set of skills and tools known as Digital Forensics, … | Chris Muller, George Blood | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2012-08-12 | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities | This workflow was documented by Martin Gengenbach for his 2012 master’s thesis. | Martin Gengenbach, University of Maryland, MITH | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2021-03-18 | Migrating BitCurator VirtualBox to Hyper-V | Are you looking for an alternative to VirtualBox VM for BitCurator installation via virtual machine? The Migrating BitCurator VirtualBox VM … | Shelly Black and BCC Documentation & Training Committee | documentation featured-resources resources | documentation-training-committee |
| 2017-04-28 | More Floppies, Less Process: the Digital Media Log | This talk will discuss the RAC’s Digital Media Log, a lightweight web app that integrates with ArchivesSpace to efficiently inventory … | Bonnie Gordon | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2022-05-25 | National Software Reference Library (NSRL) Exercise | Description This hands-on exercise is meant to introduce students to the National Software Reference Library and the NSRL Lookup command … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | resources teaching-materials | bitcurator-hands-on-exercises bitcuratoredu-project educators |
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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.
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.
BitCurator Strategic Directions 2022-2024 1. Purpose The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is an independent, community-led membership association which builds a community of organizations that support practitioners responsible for the curation of born-digital materials, especially through the application of free and open-source tools. 2. Vision The BCC … Read more →
A blog post by the BitCuratorEdu project team about the barriers to teaching digital forensics in LIS and iSchool programs, as well as continuing education settings. About this resource This resource was released by the BitCuratorEdu project and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution … Read more →
Are you looking for an alternative to VirtualBox VM for BitCurator installation via virtual machine? The Migrating BitCurator VirtualBox VM to Hyper-V documentation provides instructions for installing BitCurator for use with Hyper-V. Hyper-V creates virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. Many thanks to Shelly … Read more →
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 →
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: 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 →
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.
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.
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.
Open session where people can ask questions to the entire audience anonymously. Anything goes! These could be questions related to workflows, policies, things you are struggling with, something you’d like some community advice or guidance about.
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, University of Minnesota; Alex Nelson, US National Institute of … Read more →
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 to standardize preservation actions for electronic records. These actions include generating … Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →