CurateGear + BUF 2016 Wrap Up!

Thanks to everyone who attended and/or participated in CurateGear and the BitCurator Users Forum!

CurateGear 2016 was an interactive day-long event focused on digital curation tools and methods. Participants saw demonstrations, heard about the latest developments, and discussed application in professional contexts. The event was sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (through the BitCurator Access project).

Presentation slides for CurateGear are now available here.
Abridged notes from each presentation can be found here.

We’ll be posting more BUF wrap up soon – stay tuned! In the meantime, check out the twitter feed from the event.

Program + registration available for the BitCurator Users Forum 2016

We are pleased to announce the preliminary program is now available for the BitCurator Users Forum 2016. The Forum takes place the day after CurateGear 2016.

Join BitCurator users from around the globe as we discuss how we are using the BitCurator software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, real-world experiences of digital archivists and digital curation experts. Come prepared to discuss your current challenges, share emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and address the “now what” of handling your digital forensics outputs.

Date: 15 January 2016
Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Registration
General Registration – $30
Student Registration – $15
BitCurator Consortium Member Registration – Free
Register here.

Program
8:00 – 8:30am Registration and Coffee
8:30 – 9:00am Welcome and Introductions
9:00 – 10:15am Panel: Beyond Floppy Disks
Cultural heritage institutions are collecting a larger variety of media than ever before including external hard drives, computers, and files from hosted cloud services. While there are established workflows and best practices for smaller media objects, many institutions are just now beginning to tackle these other forms of media.

This panel will be a forum to discuss how some institutions are ingesting files from various media types, including the utilization of new tools and the development of new policies and workflows.
10:15 – 10:45am Break
10:45 – 12:00pm Lightning Talks: Not Your Average BitCurator: How Repositories are Using BitCurator Tools in Different Ways
As institutions become exposed to alternative digital forensic tools and their individual strengths and limitations, they are exploring the benefits of expanding their digital curation toolset beyond reliance on any single product. Moreover, the modular architecture of tools like BitCurator has fostered a growing community of contributors who have developed and shared scripts and modifications to the open source code base.

In this lightning talk session, speakers will share how they are using BitCurator tools as part of their digital curation workflow and how they have expanded BitCurator tools to meet the needs of their institution. The session will also allow time for forum participants to ask questions and share their integration challenges and outcomes.
12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:45pm Breakouts: Where Should Access Happen?
As processes for acquiring, analyzing, and describing electronic records stabilize, institutions invariably consider access to such materials. Where and how will researchers interact with digital archives? What tools should be available to them? What is the Web’s role in access?

In this breakout session, forum participants will divide into groups to discuss the decision points involved in providing access to born-digital archival materials. The session will begin with a quick brainstorm topics before breaking out. Discussion facilitators will have several topics in mind, but participants are encouraged to have their own discussion topics and provocative statements.
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:00pm Panel: Integration with other systems
Acquisitions and processing workflows often end with a set of output files from various digital curation software tools, including both content and metadata. How does an electronic records program ensure that the output files can integrate with new or existing platforms for long term preservation? In this session, panelists will discuss their experience with different preservation and description systems, including both open source and licensed systems, and how they have approached integrating the output of their workflows into those systems.
4:00 – 4:30pm Wrap up and Future discussion

Accommodations
Please see the list of nearby hotels below.

The Carolina Inn 211 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Tel 800.962.8519
(This is the closest option. It is on the UNC Campus, just a couple of blocks from Wilson Library.)

Hampton Inn & Suites Chapel Hill Carrboro/Downtown
370 East Main Street, Unit 100
Carrboro, North Carolina 27510
Tel 919.969.6988
(Walkable distance)

Holiday Inn Express Chapel Hill
6119 Farrington Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Tel 919.489.7555

Aloft Chapel Hill
1001 South Hamilton Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Tel 866.716.8143
(Shuttle buses available)

Registration now open for BitCurator User Forum 2016!

BitCurator User Forum 2016
Join BitCurator users from around the globe as we discuss how we are using the BitCurator software environment. Hosted by the BitCurator Consortium (BCC), this event will be grounded in the practical, real-world experiences of digital archivists and digital curation experts. Come prepared to discuss your current challenges, share emerging BitCurator integrations and workflows, and address the “now what” of handling your digital forensics outputs.

Date: 15 January 2016
Place: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Registration
General Registration – $30
Student Registration – $15
BitCurator Consortium Member Registration – Free

Register now!

iPRES2015 is here! Plus BitCurator Social Mixer

Coming to iPRES2015 next week?
The BitCurator Social Mixer will be taking place at the Back Bar, Top of the Hill next Thursday evening, November 5th from 7pm-9pm.
We will have hors d’oeuvres, BitCurator stickers, and buttons! And lots to chat about.
Reserve your spot here!

We also wanted to draw your attention to the Conference Amplification page . Networking and engagement are huge parts of any conference and we’ve devised a few special sessions in the conference programme that we really want you to participate in.

See the iPRES 2015 Full Program and Program at a Glance and the list of posters and demos.

When tweeting about iPRES 2015, we recommend that you use the hashtag #ipres2015.
Both of the keynotes will be livestreamed.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Seeking participants for Open-Source Software workshop at iPRES2015

Workshop: Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements
International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES)
Friday, November 6, 2015
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

The workshop offers a space to talk about open-source software for digital preservation, and the particular challenges of developing systems and integrating them into local environments and workflows.
Topics will include current efforts and grant-funded initiatives to integrate different open source archival software tools; the development of workflows involving multiple open source tools for digital preservation, forensics, discovery and access; and the identification of gaps which may need filled by these or other tools.

Interested parties should submit a short summary (one page maximum) of a demonstration or case study they would like to present. These contributions will serve as the basis for the tool demonstration and case study portions of the day. The workshop organizers will serve as panelists during the third portion of the day and facilitators for break-out group discussions.

Please send your submissions to: oss4pres@unc.edu by Friday, October 9.

You can also send any questions to the address above.

Submission will be reviewed to ensure relevance to the themes of the event. If you would like to be considered for the workshop in time to register for iPRES at the early bird rate (before October 1), please make your submission as soon as possible, and we will do our best to review it quickly.

We hope to see you there.

    Organizers

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace

Max Eckard
University of Michigan

Christopher (Cal) Lee
University of North Carolina

Sam Meister
Educopia Institute

Courtney Mumma
Internet Archive

Michael Shallcross
University of Michigan

Bradley Westbrook
ArchivesSpace