BitCurator Consortium

BitCurator Consortium. Educopia Institute.

Helping cultural organizations acquire and curate born-digital materials through open-source digital forensics tools.

Contact: Sam Meister | January 9, 2015

The BitCurator Consortium is an independent, community-led membership association that serves as the host and center of administrative, user and community support for the BitCurator environment. It is a continuation of BitCurator Project (2011-2014) funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SILS) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).

Source: http://educopia.org/community/bcc

The BitCurator environment is a set of open-source tools adapted from the digital forensics industry for libraries, archives, and museum use. The tools extract digital objects, create metadata, ensure integrity, and identify sensitive data, providing libraries, archives, and museums with information to make appropriate processing decisions. The BitCurator environment is freely distributed under an open-source license. It can be installed as a Linux environment; run as a virtual machine on top of most contemporary operating systems; or run as individual software tools, packages, support scripts, and documentation.

<more at http://educopia.org/community/bcc; related links: https://bitcuratorconsortium.org/ (BitCurator Consortium. Membership is open to libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions worldwide that seek a collaborative community within which they may explore and apply forensics approaches and solutions to their digital collections.) and http://www.bitcurator.net/>