Video: “Bringing Digital Forensics to the Library: An Introduction to the BitCurator Project”
The following presentation was recorded at the Library of Congress on March 20, 2012 and recently made available on LC’s YouTube channel.
Summary
Porter Olsen discussed the BitCurator Project, a system for cultural heritage professionals that incorporates the functionality of many digital forensics tools. In this presentation, he demonstrated a beta version of the BitCurator Environment and specifically showed how the digital forensics tools included in BitCurator address the needs of digital archivists.
Olsen is in the department of English at the University of Maryland and a research associate at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
A text transcript is also available.
Direct to BitCurator Web Site ||| BitCurator Wiki ||| BitCurator on Twitter
See Also: Porter Olsen’s Maryland Institute for Technology Bio
See Also: An Early Look at the BitCurator Environment (Blog Post by Olsen; November 26, 2012)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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