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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 |
| 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 … | Tim Walsh | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 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 |
| 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 | Approved by a vote of the BitCurator Consortium membership on May 21, 2021. First established: June 9, 2014 Last modified: … | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | resources | program-committee |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2020-10-16 | Closing Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Laura Alagna | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2021-04-15 | 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 featured-news past-events resources news 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2020-10-12 | New Member Benefit! Workflow Assessments | The BCC will be offering small-scale born-digital processing workflow assessments on a limited basis in 2021. This will be a … | Hannah Wang | featured-news news resources workflows | current-members executive-council membership-committee |
| 2017-04-28 | One does not simply keep disk images: ethical, risk tolerance, and sustainabilty issues with forensic disk image retention | Forensic disk images provide the best means of accurately capturing, and ensuring the authenticity of, all of the data on … | Keith Pendergrass | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-13 | Opening Remarks, October 13, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 13, 2020 | Laura Alagna, Brian Dietz, Jess Farrell, and Shira Peltzman | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2020-10-14 | Opening Remarks, October 14, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 14, 2020 | Brian Dietz | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2020-10-15 | Opening Remarks, October 15, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 15, 2020 | Shira Peltzman | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2020-10-16 | Opening Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Opening Remarks, October 16, 2020 | Laura Alagna | presentations resources | bitcurator-users-forum-2020 |
| 2015-07-16 | Overview of BitCurator | A webinar given to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) on the purpose and usage of the BitCurator environment … | Matthew Farrell, Duke University Libraries | presentations resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-25 | Panel: Access | Levels and Practices of Born-Digital Access: Reports from the DLF Born-Digital Access Group Providing access to born-digital archival content presents … | Alison Clemens, Shira Peltzman, Brian Dietz, Kelly Bolding, Matthew Farrell, Heather Smedberg, Cheryl Cordingley, Tori Maches, | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2016-01-15 | Panel: Beyond Floppy Disks | Cultural heritage institutions are collecting a larger variety of media than ever before including external hard drives, computers, and files … | Brian Dietz, Bertram Lyons, Porter Olsen | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2016 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2016-01-15 | Panel: Integration with other systems | Acquisitions and processing workflows often end with a set of output files from various digital curation software tools, including both … | Euan Cochrane, Yale University | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2016 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-25 | Panel: Media | The Emperor’s New Grooves: Recognizing Multisession CD-ROM tracks not captured in disk images This talk will focus on two related … | Dianne Dietrich, Alex Nelson, Jonathan Farbowitz, Flaminia Fortunato, Eddy Colloton, Caroline Gil | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2019-10-25 | Panel: Workflows and Collaboration | Gaining control of our legacy media backlog: appraisal of previously unmanaged born-digital material In this talk I will provide a … | Kevin Glick, Cate Peebles, Bob Rice, Brianna Losardo, David Cirella, Kelsey O'Connel, Alice Prael | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2014-07-29 | Penn State Born Digital (Member-Only) | There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | Penn State University | members-only resources workflows | current-members |
| 2016-11-09 | Penn State University Workflow – Born Digital Content | Penn State University Workflow for born-digital content. Produced as part of Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse … | Penn State University | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2015-06-30 | Princeton University Archives (Member-Only) | There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | Princeton University | members-only resources workflows | current-members |
| 2016-11-09 | Princeton University Archives Workflow | Princeton University Archives Workflow map. Produced as part of the Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse with … | Princeton University | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2016-11-09 | Purdue University Workflow | Purdue University Workflow map for born-digital archives and special collections content produced as part of the Workflow Mapping Project. This … | Purdue University | resources workflows | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2021-03-05 | Python Study Group Motivation and Goals | As Jane Austen once wrote, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that scripting and coding skills have the potential to … | Python Study Group | documentation resources | python |
| 2019-10-24 | Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail (RATOM) | Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail (RATOM), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a joint project of the … | Cal Lee, Sangeeta Desai | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2019 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-26 | Salman Rushdie Archive | In 1988, the Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini proclaimed a fatwa—or death sentence—on author Salman Rushdie for his depiction … | Erika Farr, Dorothy Waugh, Emory University | case-studies resources | bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2018-09-13 | Session 1 – Nobody Puts Access in the Corner | At the DLF Forum 2017, members of the DLF Born-Digital Access Group held a working lunch and discussed issues related … | Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Kelly Bolding, Brian Dietz, Shira Peltzman, Jessica Venlet | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-13 | Session 1: Scalability and Automation | Talk 1: Scalability, automation and open source tools at the British Film Institute (00:01:53) Joanna White The British Film Institute’s … | David Cirella, Grete Graf, Lynn Moulton, Joanna White | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 developers it-managers-units |
| 2018-09-14 | Session 10 – Where Does Digital Forensics Fit in the Digital Curation Workflow | This panel will discuss the substantial findings and documentation produced in the first year of the OSSArcFlow project, a collaborative … | Alex Chassanoff, Sam Meister | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-13 | Session 2: New Horizons | Talk One: DiAGRAM – the Digital Archiving Graphical Risk Assessment Model: quantifying digital preservation risks (00:00:00) David Underdown, Hannah Merwood, … | Elizabeth England, David Underdown, Hannah Merwood, and Alex Green | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators it-managers-units prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2018-09-13 | Session 3 – Journalism and Digital Preservation | Several incidents in recent years have demonstrated the necessity of digital preservation in the media: the deletion of the Gothamist, … | Laura Alagna | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-14 | Session 3: BitCurator | Talk One: BitCurator Environments in Archives: Collaboration Architectures and Workflow for Digital Preservation (00:01:40) Arjun Sabharwal The demand for digital … | Arjun Sabharwal, Alison Rhonemus, Hannah Wang | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members educators prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2020-10-15 | Session 4: Access | Talk One: Providing Access to the Christine Tamblyn’s Interactive Digital Artworks: A Case Study (00:00:00) Carolina Quezada Meneses As part … | Carolina Quezada Meneses, Joe Carrano, Kate Dundon, Jess Waggoner | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators it-managers-units prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2020-10-16 | Session 5: Imaging | Talk One: To Image or Not to Image: Implementing a staggered transition to logical capture by default (1:30) Tori Maches … | Laura Alagna, Alex Chassanoff, Dianne Dietrich, Brian Dietz, farrell, Alex Nelson, Shira Peltzman, Paige Walker, Tori Maches | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members educators prospective-bcc-members students |
| 2018-09-14 | Session 6 – Lightning Talks | How reliable are our forensic tools? Working with born digital files requires the use of various tools, and there is … | Laura Alagna, Sara Bond, Dianne Dietrich, Cal Lee, Alex Nelson, Keith Pendergrass, Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, Lorain Wang, Kam Woods | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2018-09-14 | Session 7 – Saving Data Journalism | 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 … | Katherine Boss, Maria Bustillos, Ben Welsh | presentations resources | bitcurator-users program-committee |
| 2018-09-14 | Session 8 – Work Work Work Workflows | Communities of Practice: Building a Foundation for Born-Digital Processing When I arrived at UNC Wilson Special Collections Library in 2016, … | Brian Dietz, Julia Kim, Jessica Venlet | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2018-09-14 | Session 9 – Nuts and Bolts of Digital Archives | A practical approach to working with proprietary file formats At The New York Public Library, archival collections increasingly contain proprietary … | Dianne Dietrich, Susan Malsbury, David Teneholtz | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2018 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2015-01-07 | Simplifying and Improving Access to the Contents of Disk Images in Born-Digital Collections | This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license. | Kam Woods | presentations resources | bitcurator-access-project bitcurator-users current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2017-04-28 | The All-Seeing Eye: Digital Archives and Surveillance | “Delete the logs” has become a mantra for security experts post-election as organizations work to minimize risk to populations who … | Talya Cooper | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2017 current-members educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-08-26 | The Forensics Wiki | The Forensics Wiki is a Creative Commons-licensed wiki devoted to information about digital forensics. | Simson Garfinkel | documentation resources | bitcurator-users current-members developers documentation-training-committee educators prospective-members students |
| 2020-10-16 | The Other BCC: Appraising and Processing Email | Once libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) have established general processes for born-digital materials, they are often confronted with challenges associated … | Cal Lee, Kam Woods | presentations resources | bitcurator-users bitcurator-users-forum-2020 current-bcc-members developers educators it-managers-units prospective-bcc-members students |
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.
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 →
As Jane Austen once wrote, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that scripting and coding skills have the potential to create efficiencies and improvements in all kinds of digital archives and digital preservation workflows.” Or at least she might have if she were an archivist … Read more →
Looking for a link shared in the chat during a BitCurator Users Forum 2020 session? Follow the link below to see all of the resources shared in the chat over the 4-day Forum.
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.
Talk One: To Image or Not to Image: Implementing a staggered transition to logical capture by default (1:30) Tori Maches While creating disk images is best practice for physical storage media, this is not always practical. Disk images represent an increased storage and time commitment … 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 →
A discussion of different experiences mediating between software tools and born-digital materials and the ethical considerations of this work.