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Advanced Topics Webinar – BCA Webtools

Cal Lee, Kam Woods, BitCurator Consortium

This is a recording of a BitCurator Consortium webinar on BitCurator Access WebTools, the third of a series of webinars on BitCurator advanced topics! These webinars are designed to dig a little deeper into the advanced functionality of the BitCurator software environment, and to provide … Read more →

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Purdue University Workflow

Purdue University

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.

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Penn State University Workflow – Born Digital Content

Penn State University

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.

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University of Colorado Boulder Workflow

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Workflow map for born-digital materials on physical media. Produced as part of the Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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Princeton University Archives Workflow

Princeton University

Princeton University Archives Workflow map. Produced as part of the Workflow Mapping Project. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

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British Library Workflow

British Library

“Flashback” workflow for legacy content extraction. This content is shared for reuse with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (4.0) license.

Advanced Topics Webinar – Scripting in BitCurator

Dianne Dietrich, Jarrett Drake

This webinar’s focus is on scripting within the BitCurator environment and is led by Dianne Dietrich (Cornell University) and Jarrett Drake (Princeton University). Each presenter will describe their experience getting started with scripting in BitCurator, challenges overcome, resources utilized, and provide recommendations for those just … Read more →

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University of Maryland Libraries Processing Workflow

University of Maryland Libraries

This workflow was developed by Alice Prael and Amy Wickner for the University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. It incorporates a FRED (disk imaging), BitCurator (disk image analysis), ArchivesSpace (archival description, tracking accessions and preservation events), and Fedora 4 (digital repository for … Read more →

Advanced Topics Webinar – Kryoflux

Dorothy Waugh, Matthew Farrell, Walker Sampson

This webinar’s focus is on the features, uses, and application of the Kryoflux hardware interface and software tool, including the following topics: Overview of Kryoflux basic functionality and outputs Example use cases for Kryoflux application Typical issues and challenges with implementing Kryoflux in digital forensics … Read more →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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 →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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 →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Breakouts: Where Should Access Happen?

BitCurator Consortium

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 →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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 →

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

Wrap up and Future discussion

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BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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.

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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.

BitCurator Consortium Presentations

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

BitCurator Consortium

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

BitCurator Consortium

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

BitCurator Consortium

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 →

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