Born Digital Resources: Working with Trainees, Donors and Peers

This presentation focuses on a) resources I've used to educate and train students working with born-digital media in an archival setting, b) resources I’ve used to promote born-digital media preservation, and c) my experiences working with donors of born-digital media in identifying potential archive materials and in transferring those materials. Presented at SAA 2014.

Transcript

1. Born Digital Resources: Working with Trainees, Donors and Peers
2. Principles of Digital Archiving • Preservation
 ‣ Risks • Metadata • Storage • Arrangement
 & Access
3. Forensics M. Kirschenbaum, R. Ovenden, & G. Redwine
 Digital Forensics & Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections (2010)
4. Forensics > >
5. Forensics Brian Carrier File System Forensic Analysis (2005)
6. Tools BagIt Duke Data Accessioner + +
7. Software dd guymager libewf fiwalk bulk_extractor BagIt exiftool Clam AV FTK Imager * md5deep FITS JHOVE DROID FIDO BitCurator The Sleuth Kit
8. Linux William E. Shotts, Jr.
 The Linux Command Line (2012)
9. Donors • Often do not consider born-digital material
 • Technical fluency has wide variation
 ‣ Expectations also vary widely
 • Numerous methods of transfer
 ‣ Each method usually has its own “paper trail”
10. Internal Advocacy • The numbers • Showcasing the work and the items
11. OAIS
12. Also: TRAC Audit OAIS
13. Web Archiving Maureen Pennock
 Web-Archiving (2013)
14. Web Archiving IIPC, Internet Archive, SAA Web Archiving Group Also:
15. The News Andy Warhol’s Amiga disks! Prince of Persia source code!
16. Thanks! walker.sampson@colorado.edu @wxsampson