BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions
Christopher A. Lee, Alexandra Chassanoff, Kam Woods, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Porter Olsen · D-Lib Magazine · 2012
This paper introduces the BitCurator Project, which aims to incorporate digital forensics tools and methods into collecting institutions' workflows. BitCurator is a collaborative effort led by the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The project arose from a perceived need in the library/archives community to develop digital forensics tools with interfaces, documentation, and functionality that can support the workflows of collecting institutions. This paper describes current efforts, ongoing work, and implications for future development of forensic-based, analytic software for born-digital materials.