{"id":3813,"date":"2011-10-20T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:49","slug":"mith-partners-with-unc-sils-on-digital-forensics-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/mith-partners-with-unc-sils-on-digital-forensics-project\/","title":{"rendered":"MITH Partners with UNC SILS on Digital Forensics Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School
\nof Information and Library Science (SILS)<\/a> has received a grant for
\n$600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project that
\ncreates and analyzes systems for archivists, librarians and other
\ninformation professionals to incorporate digital forensics methods.<\/p>\n

The BitCurator<\/a> project will be a joint effort-led by SILS and the
\nMaryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the
\nUniversity of Maryland, which will involve contributors from several
\nother institutions-to develop a system for professionals who manage
\ncollections to incorporate the functionality of digital forensics
\ntools and methods into their work. The BitCurator project will be a
\nnatural and fruitful extension of two recent Andrew W. Mellon
\nFoundation grants: “Digital Acquisition Learning Laboratory” at SILS
\nand “Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage”
\nat MITH. The BitCurator project will address a set of needs and
\nopportunities that were identified in both of those projects.<\/p>\n

Materials with significant cultural value are now predominantly “born
\ndigital.” Collecting institutions have great opportunities to acquire
\nand preserve resources created throughout the creative process. In
\norder to seize these opportunities, information professionals must be
\nprepared to extract digital materials from removable media in ways
\nthat reflect the rich metadata and ensure the integrity of the
\nmaterials. They must also support and mediate appropriate access:
\nallowing users to make sense of materials and understand their
\ncontext, while also preventing inadvertent disclosure of sensitive
\ndata.<\/p>\n

“There are already many cases of self-contained packages that bundle
\nmany of the tools in order to support digital forensics activities,”
\nsaid Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee<\/a>, principal investigator of the
\nBitCurator project. “However, they are not likely to be very
\napproachable to library\/archives professionals in terms of interface
\nand documentation. Even more importantly, there are two fundamental
\nneeds for collecting institutions that are not addressed by software
\ndesigned for the digital forensics industry: incorporation into the
\nworkflow of archives\/library ingest and collection management
\nenvironments, and provision of public access to the data.”<\/p>\n

The BitCurator project is an effort to build, test and analyze systems
\nand software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the
\nworkflows of a variety of collecting institutions. Dr. Matthew
\nKirschenbaum<\/a>, associate director of MITH is the co-principal
\ninvestigator of the project. Kam Woods<\/a>, postdoctoral research
\nassociate at SILS, serves as the technical lead for the BitCurator
\nproject. Two groups of external partners will contribute to this
\nprocess: a professional expert panel of individuals who are at various
\nlevels of implementing digital forensics tools and methods in their
\ncollecting institution contexts, and a development advisory group of
\nindividuals who have significant experience with development of
\nsoftware.<\/p>\n

BitCurator will define and test support for a digital curation
\nworkflow that begins at the point of encountering holdings that reside
\non removable media-either new acquisitions or materials that are
\nwithin a repositories existing holdings-and extends to the point of
\ninteraction with an end user. \u00a0BitCurator will address both the client
\nside tools required at the point of initial data extraction and
\nback-end tools for batch processing of disk images, which are likely
\nto reside on a remote server.<\/p>\n

“This project speaks to several of the key findings from the earlier
\nMellon-funded report on Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage
\nCollections,” said Kirschenbaum. “It’s especially exciting to see an
\niSchool and a digital humanities center collaborating on tools that
\nwill benefit not only the archivists processing born-digital
\nmaterials, but also the scholars who will be using them.”<\/p>\n

For more information about the project, please visit the BitCurator
\nWeb site at: bitcurator.net<\/a> and follow @bitcurator<\/a> on Twitter.
\n
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