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Explaining Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

As a Charter Member of the BitCurator Consortium, the MIT Libraries in involved in outreach and education about how digital forensics can be used for understanding digital material and making it accessible.  As a collecting repository, the Institute Archives and Special Collections department of the Libraries has been utilizing and testing digital forensics tools and […]

Presenting Digital Archives and Preservation Tools and Systems!

In an effort to inform my colleagues and keep myself up to date about the tools and systems we are using or assessing for our digital archives collections I have been giving open presentations to MIT LIbraries staff. The first presentation was an overview of our needs, ecosystem, and a brief summary of each of […]

Posted on 2015-07-01 in All

Providing Reference to Disk Images

This month I received a reference request that involved a digital collection we acquired some months back.  It’s not an unusual type of reference question but I thought I’d blog about it as a use case for digital archives. The request came from the office of origin so we provided the reference directly. The requestor […]

Engaging with Digital Archives Open Source Communities

In addition to the work we are doing here at the MIT Libraries, we are also engaged with the global community of archivist and preservation folks developing open source tools for digital archives, digital forensics, and digital preservation.  Here are a few of the ways in which we are participating in communities to enhance, improve, […]