BitCurator is a project that is a collaboration between the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to implement digital forensics tools in collecting institutions. From 2011 to 2014 the project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the project's ongoing maintenance and software development is done by the BitCurator Consortium. The project also has two external partners: a Professional Expert Panel and a Development Advisory Group. The Professional Expert Panel is made up of individuals who are implementing digital forensics tools and methods in each of their own collecting institutions to find better ways to implement digital forensic tools in to workflows of collections and collection management environments. The Development Advisory Group address the need for using digital forensics to make collections publicly accessible. The Development Advisory Group are individuals who have significant experience with software development.
The software that BitCurator releases is free and open sourced under an open source license so that any library or archive may have access to the tools. The BitCurator software can be installed in a Linux environment, run as a virtual machine in most current operating systems, or the software can be used as individual software tools, packages, support scripts and documentation.
The Current Features of BitCurator are:
- Pre-imaging data triage
- Forensic disk imaging
- File system analysis and reporting
- Identification of private and individually identifying information
- Export of technical and other metadata
BitCurator Consortium. (2015, October 29). About the Project. Retrieved from BitCurator: http://www.bitcurator.net/bitcurator/
BitCurator Consortium. (2015, October 29). Software. Retrieved from BitCurator:
http://www.bicurator.net/bitcurator/
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