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|purpose=The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials.
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|purpose= The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials.
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|image=[[File:BitCurator-Basic-360px.png]]
 
|homepage=http://bitcurator.net/
 
|homepage=http://bitcurator.net/
 
|license=Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
 
|license=Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
 
|platforms=Ubuntu-Linux
 
|platforms=Ubuntu-Linux
|function=File Management, Fixity, Metadata Extraction, Metadata Processing, Quality Assurance, Validation, Workflow
 
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= Description =
 
= Description =
 
The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help with collecting institutions process born-digital materials.  
 
The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help with collecting institutions process born-digital materials.  
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= User Experiences =
 
= User Experiences =
  
* Alice Prael and Amy Wickner, "[https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/18486/S6-PraelWickner.pdf Getting to Know FRED]," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, October 9, 2015
 
  
* Sam Meister and Alexandra Chassanoff, "[https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i2.325 Integrating Digital Forensics Techniques into Curatorial Tasks: A Case Study]," International Journal of Digital Curation 9, no. 2 (2014): 6-16.
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= Development Activity =
 
 
* [https://bitcuratorconsortium.org/workflows Workflows] - BitCurator Consortium
 
  
= Development Activity =
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The [https://bitcurator.net/bitcurator/ BitCurator project] has been a joint effort led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SILS) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) to develop a system for collecting professionals that incorporates the functionality of many digital forensics tools begun in 2011.
  
The BitCurator environment was originally developed through a [https://bitcurator.net/bitcurator/ series of projects] (2011-2014) led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SILS) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Since 2014, the software has been maintained by the [https://bitcuratorconsortium.org/ BitCurator Consortium].
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Amongst the original 2011-2014 development team was Christopher (Cal) Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was Principal Investigator of the BitCurator project, which is developing and disseminating open-source digital forensics tools for use by archivists and librarians.  
  
 
BitCurator software is now housed in a set of repositories on GitHub.
 
BitCurator software is now housed in a set of repositories on GitHub.
  
 
File an Issue
 
File an Issue
 
 
The BitCurator Consortium maintains a [https://confluence.educopia.org/display/BC/Filing+an+issue+in+JIRA JIRA instance] to respond to software and environment issues outside of GitHub.
 
The BitCurator Consortium maintains a [https://confluence.educopia.org/display/BC/Filing+an+issue+in+JIRA JIRA instance] to respond to software and environment issues outside of GitHub.
  
 
Release Process and Schedule
 
Release Process and Schedule
 
 
Visit the [https://confluence.educopia.org/display/BC/Release+Process+and+Schedule Release Process and Schedule] page for additional information on how the Consortium manages feature updates, bugfixes, and release scheduling.
 
Visit the [https://confluence.educopia.org/display/BC/Release+Process+and+Schedule Release Process and Schedule] page for additional information on how the Consortium manages feature updates, bugfixes, and release scheduling.
  
  
 
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=== Release and Activity Feed===
 
=== Release and Activity Feed===
 
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<rss max=7>https://github.com/bitcurator/commits/master.atom</rss>
https://github.com/bitcurator/commits/master.atom
 

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