title: Acquiring and Processing Born-Digital Data Using the BitCurator Environment
creators: Christopher Lee
abstract: This tutorial will prepare participants to use the open-source BitCurator environment to acquire and process born-digital data. There will be a brief lecture and discussion that focuses on the motivation for using the tools and several foundational technical concepts. The remainder of the tutorial will be devoted to demonstration and hands-on exercises that demonstrate specific tools and methods. Participants will learn how to mount media as read-only, create disk images, mount forensically packaged disk images, export individual files or entire directories from disk images, use Nautilus scripts to perform batch activities, generate and interpret Digital Forensics XML (DFXML), generate a variety of standard and customized reports (including PREMIS records), and identify various forms of sensitive data within collections. 
   
keywords: forensics preservation dfxml metadata privacy collections acquisition