BitCurator http://www.bitcurator.net BitCurator Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:43:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 CurateGear + BUF 2016 Wrap Up! http://www.bitcurator.net/curategear-buf-2016-wrap-up/ http://www.bitcurator.net/curategear-buf-2016-wrap-up/#respond Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:38:15 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1833 >> ]]> Thanks to everyone who attended and/or participated in CurateGear and the BitCurator Users Forum!

CurateGear 2016 was an interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. Participants saw demonstrations, heard about the latest developments, and discussed application in professional contexts. The event was sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (through the BitCurator Access project).

Presentation slides for CurateGear are now available here.
Abridged notes from each presentation can be found here.

We’ll be posting more BUF wrap up soon – stay tuned! In the meantime, check out the twitter feed from the event.

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Program + registration available for the BitCurator Users Forum 2016 http://www.bitcurator.net/program-registration-available-for-the-bitcurator-users-forum-2016/ http://www.bitcurator.net/program-registration-available-for-the-bitcurator-users-forum-2016/#respond Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:03:09 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1829 >> ]]> We are pleased to announce the preliminary program is now available for the BitCurator Users Forum 2016. The Forum takes place the day after CurateGear 2016.

Join BitCurator users from around the globe as we discuss how we are using the BitCurator software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, real-world experiences of digital archivists and digital curation experts. Come prepared to discuss your current challenges, share emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and address the “now what” of handling your digital forensics outputs.

Date: 15 January 2016
Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Registration
General Registration – $30
Student Registration – $15
BitCurator Consortium Member Registration – Free
Register here.

Program
8:00 – 8:30am Registration and Coffee
8:30 – 9:00am Welcome and Introductions
9:00 – 10:15am Panel: Beyond Floppy Disks
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 other forms of media.

This panel will be a forum to discuss how some institutions are ingesting files from various media types, including the utilization of new tools and the development of new policies and workflows.
10:15 – 10:45am Break
10:45 – 12:00pm Lightning Talks: Not Your Average BitCurator: How Repositories are Using BitCurator Tools in Different Ways
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 of contributors who have developed and shared scripts and modifications to the open source code base.

In this lightning talk session, speakers will share how they are using BitCurator tools as part of their digital curation workflow and how they have expanded BitCurator tools to meet the needs of their institution. The session will also allow time for forum participants to ask questions and share their integration challenges and outcomes.
12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:45pm Breakouts: Where Should Access Happen?
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 participants will divide into groups to discuss the decision points involved in providing access to born-digital archival materials. The session will begin with a quick brainstorm topics before breaking out. Discussion facilitators will have several topics in mind, but participants are encouraged to have their own discussion topics and provocative statements.
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:00pm Panel: Integration with other systems
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? In this session, panelists will discuss their experience with different preservation and description systems, including both open source and licensed systems, and how they have approached integrating the output of their workflows into those systems.
4:00 – 4:30pm Wrap up and Future discussion

Accommodations
Please see the list of nearby hotels below.

The Carolina Inn 211 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Tel 800.962.8519
(This is the closest option. It is on the UNC Campus, just a couple of blocks from Wilson Library.)

Hampton Inn & Suites Chapel Hill Carrboro/Downtown
370 East Main Street, Unit 100
Carrboro, North Carolina 27510
Tel 919.969.6988
(Walkable distance)

Holiday Inn Express Chapel Hill
6119 Farrington Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Tel 919.489.7555

Aloft Chapel Hill
1001 South Hamilton Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Tel 866.716.8143
(Shuttle buses available)

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Registration now open for BitCurator User Forum 2016! http://www.bitcurator.net/registration-now-open-for-bitcurator-user-forum-2016/ http://www.bitcurator.net/registration-now-open-for-bitcurator-user-forum-2016/#respond Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:54:59 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1817 >> ]]> BitCurator User Forum 2016
Join BitCurator users from around the globe as we discuss how we are using the BitCurator software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, real-world experiences of digital archivists and digital curation experts. Come prepared to discuss your current challenges, share emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and address the “now what” of handling your digital forensics outputs.

Date: 15 January 2016
Place: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Registration
General Registration – $30
Student Registration – $15
BitCurator Consortium Member Registration – Free

Register now!

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iPRES2015 is here! Plus BitCurator Social Mixer http://www.bitcurator.net/ipres2015-is-here-plus-bitcurator-social-mixer/ http://www.bitcurator.net/ipres2015-is-here-plus-bitcurator-social-mixer/#respond Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:02:49 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1813 >> ]]> Coming to iPRES2015 next week?
The BitCurator Social Mixer will be taking place at the Back Bar, Top of the Hill next Thursday evening, November 5th from 7pm-9pm.
We will have hors d’oeuvres, BitCurator stickers, and buttons! And lots to chat about.
Reserve your spot here!

We also wanted to draw your attention to the Conference Amplification page . Networking and engagement are huge parts of any conference and we’ve devised a few special sessions in the conference programme that we really want you to participate in.

See the iPRES 2015 Full Program and Program at a Glance and the list of posters and demos.

When tweeting about iPRES 2015, we recommend that you use the hashtag #ipres2015.
Both of the keynotes will be livestreamed.

Hope everyone has a great week!

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Seeking participants for Open-Source Software workshop at iPRES2015 http://www.bitcurator.net/seeking-participants-for-our-workshop-at-ipres2015/ http://www.bitcurator.net/seeking-participants-for-our-workshop-at-ipres2015/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:45:58 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1805 >> ]]> Workshop: Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements
International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES)
Friday, November 6, 2015
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

The workshop offers a space to talk about open-source software for digital preservation, and the particular challenges of developing systems and integrating them into local environments and workflows.
Topics will include current efforts and grant-funded initiatives to integrate different open source archival software tools; the development of workflows involving multiple open source tools for digital preservation, forensics, discovery and access; and the identification of gaps which may need filled by these or other tools.

Interested parties should submit a short summary (one page maximum) of a demonstration or case study they would like to present. These contributions will serve as the basis for the tool demonstration and case study portions of the day. The workshop organizers will serve as panelists during the third portion of the day and facilitators for break-out group discussions.

Please send your submissions to: oss4pres@unc.edu by Friday, October 9.

You can also send any questions to the address above.

Submission will be reviewed to ensure relevance to the themes of the event. If you would like to be considered for the workshop in time to register for iPRES at the early bird rate (before October 1), please make your submission as soon as possible, and we will do our best to review it quickly.

We hope to see you there.

    Organizers

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace

Max Eckard
University of Michigan

Christopher (Cal) Lee
University of North Carolina

Sam Meister
Educopia Institute

Courtney Mumma
Internet Archive

Michael Shallcross
University of Michigan

Bradley Westbrook
ArchivesSpace

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Save the Dates – Announcing CurateGear and BitCurator Users Forum http://www.bitcurator.net/save-the-dates-january-14-15-2016-announcing-curategear-and-bitcurator-users-forum/ http://www.bitcurator.net/save-the-dates-january-14-15-2016-announcing-curategear-and-bitcurator-users-forum/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:12:13 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1798 >> ]]> Curate Gear 2016 – Thursday, January 14th, 2016
2nd Annual BitCurator User Forum – Friday, January 15th, 2016

January will once again be a big month in Chapel Hill for those interested in digital curation. On January 14, we’ll be hosting CurateGear 2016: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections. This will be the fifth year that we’ve run this interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. Participants see demonstrations, hear about the latest developments, and discuss application in professional contexts. We don’t yet have the program for 2016, but you can get a sense of the content and format by visiting the agendas from previous years:

http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2015.html
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2014.html
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/curategear2013.html
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/2012symposium.html

On January 15, we’ll be running the second BitCurator Users Forum, hosted by the BitCurator Consortium.

You can see information about last year’s BUF at:
http://educopia.org/events/buf2015

The BCC Program Committee will be developing the agenda for this year.
Stay tuned for further information.

We hope to see you in Chapel Hill in January!

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Webinar on Using BitCurator http://www.bitcurator.net/webinar-on-using-bitcurator/ http://www.bitcurator.net/webinar-on-using-bitcurator/#respond Sat, 15 Aug 2015 02:19:57 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1788 >> ]]> In this webinar given to members of the Association of Southern Research Libraries (ASERL), Matthew Farrell from Duke University Archives describes his work in digital forensics and the use of BitCurator at the Rubenstein Library. In addition to serving as the Digital Records Archivist at Duke, Farrell is also a member of the BitCurator Access Advisory Board.

Presentation slides

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BitCurator Takes Vienna! http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-takes-vienna/ http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-takes-vienna/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:53:07 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1760 >> ]]> Cal and Kam just returned from teaching a one-day workshop at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna, Austria! The workshop was sponsored by the Open Preservation Foundation, which seeks to promote best practices for the long-term preservation of digital cultural heritage materials.

During the workshop, participants were able to gain hands-on experience using BitCurator tools, including our latest developments with BitCurator Access. Participants were encouraged to bring disk images from their own collections, in an effort to present and discuss real-world use cases faced by institutions. The workshop focused on using the BitCurator environment to 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. Workshop participants came from five different European countries: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

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BitCurator Access Software Developer Needed! http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-access-software-developer-needed/ http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-access-software-developer-needed/#respond Thu, 21 May 2015 23:12:53 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1753 >> ]]> Would you like to help build software to automatically redact private and sensitive information from large data objects such as disk images?
The BitCurator Access team is looking for a software developer to join us during the summer.

The Software Developer will write, test and document software to redact – at both the block level and the file level – patterns identified within born-digital materials. S/he will report to Kam Woods, the Technical Lead of the BitCurator Access project.

Required:
– At least one year of Python development experience
– Working knowledge of file system structures and modern file system metadata
– Working knowledge of XML schema design and Python libraries/wrappers to manipulate XML structures (e.g. Expat, ElementTree)
– Must be comfortable using revision control with git and GitHub
– Working knowledge of Linux development environments

Desirable:
– Prior experience with open source digital forensics libraries and tools (e.g. The Sleuth Kit, libewf, Digital Forensics XML)
– Familiarity with Python scientific and data analysis libraries (SciPy and Pandas in particular)

Compensation:
Up to $25 per hour based on experience. Work to be performed over the summer.

About BitCurator Access:
BitCurator Access is an Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded project housed in the School of Library and Information Science at UNC. Our team is working on bringing tools and techniques from the world of digital forensics to libraries, archives, and museums, enabling long-term access to complex legacy digital materials.

If you have any questions about this position, please contact us at bitcurator@gmail.com.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and welcomes all to apply regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
We also encourage protected veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply.

To apply, please go to: http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/75915

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BitCurator Consortium Internship http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-consortium-internship/ http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator-consortium-internship/#respond Fri, 01 May 2015 18:06:55 +0000 http://www.bitcurator.net/?p=1688 >> ]]> The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) and The Educopia Institute are looking to hire an intern. To learn more about this opportunity, please read below!

Description
Responsible to: Educopia Executive Director

The BitCurator Consortium intern will be responsible for the management of programmatic activities for the BitCurator Consortium (BCC). The intern will be a self-starter with a passionate belief in the importance of digital preservation activities in archives, libraries, and museums.

This position will bear responsibility for a variety of administrative and research-oriented tasks, including: proofreading documents, managing scheduling, taking minutes at meetings, assisting with event hosting, assisting with outreach activities, drafting and updating documentation, and researching best practices for model policies.

The intern will be expected to work 10-15 hours per week, and will be paid $12 per hour.

Responsibilities include:
1. Maintaining content on the BCC website and affiliated resources (e.g., training videos and presentations, bibliography)
2. Making arrangements and sending reminders for meetings with members
3. Recording and disseminating detailed meeting minutes
4. Preparing BCC outreach communications and instruments for conferences and other hosted events
5. Assisting with the creation and population of a library of model documents (policies, workflows, contracts, etc)
6. Assisting with the update and revision of training materials and “how to” resources
7. Assisting with the creation of training and professional development activities/proposals

Qualifications
– Exceptional written and oral communication skills
– Demonstrated interest and involvement in the digital library and digital preservation communities
– Ability to work under pressure, to adjust to change, to handle multiple tasks, and to coordinate the work of extended groups of member representatives

Preferred
– Experience in managing collaborative projects
– Proven ability to produce/execute reports and project plans

Instructions to applicants
Please submit a resume, cover letter, and three professional references to Katherine Skinner (Executive Director, Educopia):
katherine@educopia.org. Application deadline is May 29, 2015. Candidates will be considered until the position is filled.

The Educopia Institute is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution committed to diversity in its employment and educational programs, thereby creating a welcoming environment for everyone.

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