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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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Lightning Talks: Not Your Average BitCurator: How Repositories are Using BitCurator Tools in Different Ways

Matthew Farrell, Don Mennerich, Ben Goldman, Elizabeth Charlton, Jarrett Drake, Doug White, Euan Cochrane, Kari Smith

As institutions become exposed to alternative digital forensic tools and their individual strengths and limitations, they are exploring the benefits of expanding their digital curation toolset beyond reliance on any single product. Moreover, the modular architecture of tools like BitCurator has fostered a growing community … Read more →

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Breakouts: Where Should Access Happen?

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As processes for acquiring, analyzing, and describing electronic records stabilize, institutions invariably consider access to such materials. Where and how will researchers interact with digital archives? What tools should be available to them? What is the Web’s role in access? In this breakout session, forum … Read more →

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Panel: Integration with other systems

Euan Cochrane, Yale University

Acquisitions and processing workflows often end with a set of output files from various digital curation software tools, including both content and metadata. How does an electronic records program ensure that the output files can integrate with new or existing platforms for long term preservation? … Read more →

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Wrap up and Future discussion

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Overview of BitCurator

Matthew Farrell, Duke University Libraries

A webinar given to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) on the purpose and usage of the BitCurator environment This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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Simplifying and Improving Access to the Contents of Disk Images in Born-Digital Collections

Kam Woods

This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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A Content Model for Disk Images

Matthew Farrell, Duke University Libraries

A presentation of how to model the data collected with BitCurator This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Data Triage with Nautilus Scripts in BitCurator

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This video demonstrates performing data triage in BitCurator using Nautilus scripts. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Safely Mounting Disks

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This video demonstrates safely mounting disks in the BitCurator environment. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Using Guymager to Image Disks

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This video demonstrates using Guymager in the BitCurator environment to image disks and package information about the imaging process with the image. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse … Read more →

BitCurator v.0.8: Generating Reports

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This video demonstrates using the BitCurator Reports Generator. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Viewing, editing, and exporting metadata from image files

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This video demonstrates viewing, editing, and exporting metadata from image files in the BitCurator environment. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: View and export information from HFS-formatted disk images

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This video demonstrates viewing and exporting information from HFS, HFS+, and other Apple-formatted disk images in the BitCurator environment. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative … Read more →

BitCurator v.0.8: Run All Tool

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This video demonstrates using the BitCurator “run all” tool. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Installing BitCurator via Virtual Machine

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This video demonstrate how to install BitCurator using the BitCurator virtual machine and VirtualBox. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Using fiwalk to Generate DFXML

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This video demonstrates using fiwalk in the BitCurator environment to generate DFXML. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Annotated Features

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This video demonstrates using the BitCurator Annotated Features tool. It was produced as part of a series of tutorial screencasts during the first BitCurator project (2011-2014). This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

BitCurator v.0.8: Using Bulk Extractor to Locate Potentially Sensitive Information

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This video demonstrates using Bulk Extractor in the BitCurator environment to locate potentially sensitive information such as email addresses and credit card numbers | as well as other types of information such as GPS coordinates and image file types. It was produced as part of … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Workflows. Blue, black, white, and gray squares in mosaic pattern

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Martin Gengenbach, Duke University Libraries

This workflow was documented by Martin Gengenbach for his 2012 master’s thesis.

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