The cultural heritage community has engaged with environmental sustainability in many areas, but is only beginning to explore the sustainability concerns of digital preservation activities. Building off of a recent American Archivist article (“Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation”: https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-82.1.165 or http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:40741399), in which the authors … Read more →
Indiana University started using the BitCurator Environment in 2015 and by 2017 staff had deployed two dedicated workstations in our Born Digital Preservation Lab. The benefits of this approach are no doubt obvious to members of the BitCurator community: in addition to a pre-installed suite … Read more →
Have you ever wanted to customize the BitCurator environment? Thanks to decisions made by the BitCurator developers, modifications can be made quickly and easily using the open source configuration management software Salt. The talk will give an overview of how to make modifications to the … Read more →
One of the challenges of working with digital forensics tools, especially at the command line, is understanding how they are performing. Typically lacking user friendly status indicators and clear error messages, we often find ourselves wondering if these tools are working optimally or at all. … Read more →
In 2016, the Goddard Archives became custodians of approximately 7,000 optical disks that span a decade of Goddard Space Flight Center history, with more than one third of these CDs containing proprietary format image files. These proprietary CDs cover nine years and are high-risk, as … Read more →
Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail (RATOM), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a joint project of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the State Archives of North Carolina. RATOM is … Read more →
The BitCurator QuickStart Guide, designed as a software installation and application manual, provides step-by-step instructions for practitioners to download and run the software tools. As part of the BitCuratorEDU research project, students from the Catholic University’s Library and Information Science Program used the QuickStart Guide … Read more →
You may have been thinking that BitCurator Users Forum 2019: Communities of Practice scheduled to take place October 24-25 at Yale University is probably sold out at this point… but guest what???!!! As of this moment, there are still 20 registration spots available! We have … Read more →
The latest issue of the BCC’s newsletter is now available! It includes: BitCurator Users Forum program and registration Upcoming webinar: Recovering 90s Data Tapes Updates from the BitCuratorEdu project Featured resources
On behalf of the BitCurator Consortium Program Committee, I’m pleased to share some exciting announcements related to the upcoming BitCurator Users Forum 2019: Communities of Practice scheduled to take place October 24-25 at Yale University. Preliminary Program Live! We are happy to announce that the … 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.
This video provides a brief overview of creating disk images in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
This video provides a brief overview of safely mounting disks and other devices in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
This video provides a brief overview of using fiwalk to generate filesystem metadata in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
This video provides a brief overview of using Bulk Extractor to find potentially sensitive information in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
This video provides a brief overview of using the BitCurator Reporting Tool in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
This video provides a brief overview of using the BitCurator Reporting Tool in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video. Part 1 of Using the BitCurator Reporting Tool: https://youtu.be/6A4iDWzzEWo
This video provides a brief overview of using pyExifToolGUI to view, edit, and export metadata from image files in the BitCurator Software Environment. BitCurator Software version 2.0.6 is demonstrated in this video.
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