Resources
This section is a space where you and your digital curation fellows can list helpful resources such as publications, software, and tools. You can filter the resources below by focus (Learning, Practice, Research, Teaching) and type (Audio and Video et al). If you have an account, you can add a resource by clicking the 'Create resource' link below.
| Name | Description | Type of resource | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting Institutions | Gengenbach, Martin J. “The Way We Do it Here”: Mapping Digital Forensics Workflows in Collecting Institutions. A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S degree. August, 2012. Full text PDF available at /system/files/gengenbach-forensic-workflows-2012.pdf. | Publications | Learning, Practice, Research |
| Aligning Digital Preservation across Nations - 14 January 2013, Amsterdam | Full-day invitational workshop report and position papers held in conjunction with the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2013 in Amsterdam, organized by Christopher (Cal) Lee and Nancy McGovern. | Reports | Practice, Research, Teaching |
| A Proposal for the Creation of a Community Owned Tool Registry (Paul Wheatley) | Position paper by Paul Wheatley (SPRUCE Project Manager) for Aligning Digital Preservation across Nations at IDCC (2012/2013), proposing the unified registry that became COPTR (Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry). | Reports | Practice, Research |
| A Competency Framework for Digital Curation and Data Science (Sheila Corrall) | Position paper by Sheila Corrall (Professor and Chair, Library & Information Sciences Program, University of Pittsburgh) for the Aligning Digital Preservation across Nations Workshop (December 2012 / January 2013). | Publications | Learning, Research, Teaching |
| Unit 13: Characterization of Digital Objects (DigCCurr Curriculum Slides) | Instructional presentation slides covering identification, validation, feature extraction, significant properties, OAIS representation information, and PREMIS objectCharacteristics (Cal Lee & Helen Tibbo, UNC SILS). | Presentations | Learning, Teaching |
| 7-Zip | 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio supporting 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, TAR, WIM, ISO, and forensic/disk archive inspection. | Tools | Practice |
| A Report from the Second Workshop of the IDEA Working Group | Follow the link to the Report from the Second Workshop of the International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group, written by Carolyn Hank and Joy Davidson. | Reports | Research, Teaching |
| Aberystwyth University MScEcon/Diploma Archive Administration | Graduate archival and records management education program at Aberystwyth University Department of Information Studies. | Educational Programs | Learning, Teaching |
| AbiSource projects | This page lists various open-source word processing and document conversion projects the AbiSource community has created. | Tools | Practice |
| Access 2000 9.0 | This page offers a software summary of Microsoft Access 9.0 relational database management software. | Tools | Practice |
| AccessData Decryption Tools | This page gives information on AccessData Decryption Tools and forensic password recovery utilities. | Tools | Practice |
| Acrobat Messenger 1.0 | This page offers a software summary of Acrobat Messenger 1.0. | Tools | Practice |
| activePDF | activePDF, Inc. is a leading provider of PDF creation, conversion and development tools. | Tools | Practice |
| ActivePerl | ActivePerl is the industry-standard, commercial-grade Perl distribution used by millions of developers around the world for easy Perl installation and quality-assured code. | Tools | Practice |
| ADIGRES | ADIGRES is a powerful cross-platform Document Management System written in Java. It can be used to archive various document formats such as HTML, PDF, e-mail, plain-text or images. A user management module and a full-text search engine are included. | Tools | Practice |
| AFFLIB | The Advanced Forensics Format (AFF) and AFF Library (AFFLIB) are a joint development project of Simson L. Garfinkel and Basis Technology Corp. for storing forensic disk images and associated metadata. | Tools | Practice, Research |
| AllPinouts | Hardware connector, cable, and adapter pinout reference for legacy and modern computer interfaces and storage controllers. | Tools | Practice |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) | Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers and cloud-backed digital repositories. | Tools | Practice |
| An Interview with Helen Tibbo | Dr. Helen Tibbo, Professor in The School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, discusses digital curation and archives and the importance of preserving access as well as objects/bits. | Audio and Video | Learning, Teaching |
| Antiword | Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript. | Tools | Practice |
| AONS (Automated Obsolescence Notification System) | AONS (Automated Obsolescence Notification System) is a system to analyse digital repositories and determine whether any digital objects contained therein may be in danger of becoming obsolescent. | Tools | Practice, Research |
| Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents | Java APIs for manipulating and extracting text and metadata from various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format and Office OpenXML (OOXML). | Tools | Practice |
| Apple MobileMe | MobileMe keeps your mail, contacts, and calendar information in the cloud and uses push technology to keep everything in sync across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, and the web automatically. | Tools | Practice |
| Application Compatibility | This website provides links to various tools and resources on application compatibility across operating system generations. | Tools | Practice |
| Application Compatibility Testing and Migration Guide | This guide explains how to test and migrate legacy applications across operating system environments. | Tools | Practice |
| Archive-It | Subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. | Tools | Practice |
| Archivematica | The Archivematica project is integrating a number of open source tools and applications using a micro-services design pattern to create a comprehensive digital preservation system compliant with the ISO-OAIS functional model. | Software | Practice, Research |
| ARL Publication "New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation" | Report prepared by Tyler O. Walters and Katherine Skinner for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) examining digital curation roles in research libraries. | Publications | Learning, Practice, Research |
| arXiv.org | arXiv.org provides open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. | Tools | Research |
| askSam | Free-form database and text retrieval software for organizing unstructured and semi-structured documents, emails, and bibliographic records. | Software | Practice |
| Curators Workbench | Open-source workflow preparation and SIP assembly tool developed at UNC Chapel Hill Libraries by Greg Jansen for staging born-digital materials, generating checksums, mapping arrangement, and creating MODS/METS metadata. | Software | Practice |
| BitCurator | Joint project led by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill (Cal Lee) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) developing open-source digital forensics tools for collecting institutions. | Software | Learning, Practice, Research |
| DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) | Automated batch file format identification tool developed by The National Archives (UK) using internal byte signatures and PRONOM registry identifiers (PUIDs). | Tools | Practice |
| JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) | Extensible software framework for performing format identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects (AIFF, ASCII, Bytestream, GIF, HTML, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PDF, TIFF, UTF-8, WAV, XML). | Tools | Practice, Research |
| FITS (File Information Tool Set) | Java wrapper developed at Harvard University Library that aggregates DROID, ExifTool, FFIdent, JHOVE, and the NLNZ Metadata Extractor to produce unified technical metadata. | Tools | Practice |
| BagIt / Bagger (Library of Congress) | Hierarchical file packaging format and toolset designed to support disk-based or network-based storage and transfer of arbitrary digital content with cryptographic fixity manifests. | Tools | Practice |
| bulk_extractor | High-performance digital forensics tool by Simson Garfinkel that scans disk images, files, or directories to extract features such as email addresses, credit card numbers, SSNs, URLs, and EXIF headers. | Tools | Practice, Research |
| The Sleuth Kit (TSK) and Autopsy | Library and collection of command-line digital forensics tools by Brian Carrier for investigating disk images, analyzing volume and file system data, and generating DFXML. | Software | Practice, Research |
| KryoFlux USB Floppy Controller | Hardware and software solution by the Software Preservation Society for flux-level preservation reading of legacy magnetic floppy disks. | Hardware | Practice |
| DSpace | Open-source turnkey institutional repository application used by academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations to manage and preserve scholarly digital works. | Software | Practice |
| Fedora Commons Repository Software | Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture for managing, preserving, and linking digital content using RDF relationships. | Software | Practice, Research |
| LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) | Open-source peer-to-peer distributed digital preservation system developed at Stanford University Libraries. | Software | Practice |
| Heritrix Web Crawler | Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. | Tools | Practice |
| Digital Preservation and Access - UNC at Chapel Hill (INLS 752) | Taught in Fall 2008 by Dr. Helen Tibbo and Carolyn Hank at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| Drexel University Digital Forensics course | Graduate syllabus on digital forensics principles and archival applications at Drexel University. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| Drexel University Digital Preservation course | Graduate syllabus covering digital preservation models, OAIS, metadata, and repository policies at Drexel University. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| LIS 855: Digital Curation (UW-Madison) | Graduate course syllabus on Digital Curation taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2010. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| Simmons College Archiving and Preserving Digital Media course | Graduate archival curriculum syllabus on preserving born-digital and digitized media at Simmons College GSLIS. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| University of British Columbia Preservation of Digital Records course | School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) syllabus on digital records preservation and diplomatics. | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| University of Texas Austin Lifecycle Metadata for Digital Objects course | UT Austin School of Information syllabus covering descriptive, structural, administrative, and preservation metadata (PREMIS, METS, MODS). | Syllabi | Learning, Teaching |
| Q. What file formats will I need to be familiar with? (DCE Managing Data Guide) | Guidance on open, non-proprietary file formats for text, tabular datasets (CSV, XML, SAS XPORT), images (TIFF, JPEG 2000), audio (WAV/BWF), and video. | Formats | Learning, Practice |
| Q. How should I prepare to acquire information from storage media? (DCE Storage Media Guide) | Practical guidance on hardware write-blocking, disk imaging, legacy drives, checksum verification, and forensic workflows for physical storage media. | Storage Media | Learning, Practice |