Workshop on digital curation

"Curating the Bits: Enabling digital curation activities with
    BitCurator and BitCurator Access"
Los Angeles
April 6, 2016

Are you a museum conservator, curator, archivist working with
digital materials?  Are you looking for more skills, knowledge, and
tools to help acquire, process, analyze, and curate the digital
materials in your collections?  Then "Curating the Bits: Enabling
digital curation activities with BitCurator and BitCurator Access"
half-day workshop on April 6, 2016 at the upcoming Museums and the
Web 2016 conference is the event for you.

    <URL:http://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/curating-the-bits-enabling-digital-curation-activities-with-bitcurator-and-bitcurator-access>

This workshop will provide an introduction to how digital forensics
tools and methods can support a variety of important tasks related
to acquiring and analyzing born-digital materials and data.
Workshop participants will learn about and get experience using
BitCurator environment tools that can assist with various aspects of
digital curation, including pre-imaging data triage; forensic disk
imaging; file system analysis and reporting; identification of
private and individually identifying information; and export of
technical and other metadata.  Participants will gain a practical
understanding of how to apply these tools in their own institutions
and establish contacts in peer institutions who are undertaking
similar work.

Register for the workshop here:

    <URL:http://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/registration/>

More about BitCurator The BitCurator environment is an Ubuntu-based
Linux distribution that includes open source and public domain
digital forensics tools and unique reporting mechanisms and user
interfaces designed to assist libraries, archives, and museums with
the curation of born-digital materials.  Funded by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, the BitCurator project has developed, packaged,
and documented open-source forensics and data analysis tools to
create forensic disk images, analyze files and file systems, extract
file system metadata, identify and redact sensitive information, and
identify and remove duplicate files.

Some URLs that you might find useful:

    BitCurator Consortium website
    <URL:https://bitcuratorconsortium.org/>

    Documentation related to the BitCurator software environment
    <URL:http://wiki.bitcurator.net>

Sam Meister
Preservation Communities Manager
Educopia Institute


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