Interview with Kam Woods of BitCurator

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          Kam Woods, who is the Technical Lead for BitCurator, was interviewed by Butch Lazorchak in May of 2015. The interview discusses the latest efforts to apply digital forensics to digital preservation. Woods began working on BitCurator late in 2010 when he started using open source digital forensics tools that were written by a coworker. Woods noticed the uses these tools could have in digital preservation. Woods defines digital forensics as "the process of recovering, analyzing, and reporting on data found on digital devices" (Lazorchak, paragraph 6). He goes on to describe how digital forensics is usually a term related to law enforcement and security practices that helps identify items of interest. Digital forensics relates to archival practices such as providing accurate chain of custody, showing provenance and storing data in a way that lessens the chance of tampering, destruction or loss. Woods states that a goal of BitCurator Access is to give collecting institutions better ways to approach the contents of complex digital objects such as disk images. The current software BitCurator is developing will run as a web service and allow any user to run the software in a web browser to be able to navigate collections of disk images in various types of formats. 

Lazorchak, B. (2015, May 15). Digital Forensics and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Kam Woods of BitCurator. The Signal. Library of Congress. Retrieved from http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2015/05/digital-forensics-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-kam-woods-of-bitcurator-2/

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