BitCuratorEdu Project

Call for Volunteers: BCC Educators Membership Working Group

BitCuratorEdu Project

The BitCurator Consortium and the BitCuratorEdu project are seeking up to 10 volunteers to serve on an Educators Membership Working Group from December 2021 to June 2022. The BitCurator Consortium Educators Membership Working Group will pilot and evaluate the feasibility of a BCC Educators Membership … Read more →

Creating a Disk Image Using Guymager: Screencast Discussion Questions

Cal Lee, Hannah Wang

Description These discussion questions can be used to encourage student engagement with the BitCurator screencast, Creating a Disk Image Using Guymager. The questions can also be used for discussion accompanying a live demonstration, a guided hands-on exercise, or independent exploration of the BitCurator Environment. The … Read more →

Cross-Institutional Workflow Analysis Exercise

Rhiannon Bettivia, Hannah Wang

Description This is an exercise that asks students to select workflow diagrams from two different institutions and analyze how they represent human agents, technological agents, and the movement of digital objects. Students will not only compare and contrast these workflows, but also discuss their efficacy … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Documentation

What are the Barriers to Teaching Digital Forensics?

Jess Farrell, Katherine Skinner, Hannah Wang

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 →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: BitCurator Advocacy Workshop

Nick Connizzo, Independent Archivist; Nancy McGovern, MIT; Kelsey O’Connell, Northwestern University; Kari Smith, MIT; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project

A workshop on creating an advocacy plan for installing and implementing BitCurator at your school or institution, based on the BitCurator advocacy talking points developed by the BitCuratorEdu team and partners. The project team will introduce the BitCurator Talking Points Database and walk through different advocacy scenarios … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: Digital Preservation & Curation Training Roundtable

Jessica Farrell, BitCurator Consortium; Sharon McMeekin, Digital Preservation Coalition; Lauren Sorensen, Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project

A panel discussion on recent studies and efforts in continuing education to provide training in digital preservation and curation to practitioners.

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

BitCuratorEdu Educators Summit: Getting Started: Independent Learning with Digital Forensics Tools

Amy Berish, Rockefeller Archive Center; Jerman Brenning, Mid Sweden University; Alison Rhonemus, New York Public Library; Tessa Walsh, Artefactual

A panel discussion on independent learning with BitCurator, including some technical aspects of how to get started and transitioning from being a student to a practitioner.

BitcuratorEdu Educators' Summit

Building an Anti-Racist Digital Curation Curriculum

11:30am-12:30pm Pacific / 2:30-3:30pm Eastern Jessica Farrell, BitCuratorEdu Project; Grace Muñoz, UCLA; Ricky Punzalan, University of Michigan iSchool; Hannah Wang, BitCuratorEdu Project Recent events such as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on minoritized communities, ongoing police brutality and anti-Black violence, and the increasing number of … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Building a Community of Digital Curation Educators

Jess Farrell, Alex Chassanoff

This workshop will be a series of facilitated participatory discussions and activities that will identify answers and then develop community goals that address 3 questions.

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Workshop: Building a Community of Digital Curation Educators

Jess Farrell, Alex Chassanoff

This workshop will be a series of facilitated participatory discussions and activities that will identify answers and then develop community goals that address 3 questions: What are the key current problem areas for the field of digital curation? The facilitator will bring some to discuss … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for IT Professionals

Cal Lee, Kam Woods

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 and workstation setups 00:13:15 Suggested background readings and resources 00:14:55 Overview of the BitCurator environment 00:37:20 Kam Woods: Using and Configuring the BitCurator Environment – Practical Considerations 00:45:14 BitCurator … Read more →

BitCuratorEdu: BitCurator Access and NLP

Cal Lee, Kam Woods

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: BitCurator Access Webtools, Topic modeling with bitcurator-nlp-gentm, and Entity identification & reporting with bitcurator-nlp-entspan 00:52:30 Q&A

BitCuratorEdu: Introduction to the BitCurator Environment for Educators

Katherine Skinner, Cal Lee

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, and Metadata Export tools within BitCurator 01:01:45 Live demonstrations of tools within the BitCurator environment 01:16:00 Q&A About this resource This resource was released by the BitCuratorEdu … Read more →

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Membership is open to libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions worldwide that seek a collaborative community within which they may explore and apply forensics approaches and solutions to their digital collections.

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