Course Details
Thu, July 30, 2015
Boston, MA
This course is specifically designed as a precursor and prerequisite to the two-day DAS course “Digital Forensics for Archivists.”
The field of digital forensics often evokes imagery of prime-time television crime dramas. But what is it, and how can archivists put digital forensics tools and processes to use in their home institutions?
Archivists are more likely than ever to be confronted with collections containing removable storage media (e.g. floppy disks, hard drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, CDs). These media provide limited accessibility, and may endanger the electronic records housed within, due to obsolescence and loss over time. Caring for these records requires archivists to extract whatever useful information resides on the medium, while avoiding the accidental alteration of data or metadata.
Upon completion of this course you'll be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles, tools, and technologies behind the practical field of digital forensics;
- Explore how digital forensics tools and techniques can apply to an archival setting;
- Consider a range of digital forensics tools, and use some of them to create disk images and analyze their content for different types of information.
.In addition, you'll explore the layers of hardware and software that allow bitstreams on digital media to be read as files, the roles and relationships of these layers and tools and techniques for ensuring the completeness and evidential value of data.
| Course Format: | On Site |
| Address: | Boston College University Libraries, Boston, MA |
| Duration: | 8 hours |
| Audience Category: | Archivists, records managers, and special collections curators responsible for managing an electronic records program. |
| Level: | Beginner |
| Instructor(s): | Martin J. Gengenbach |
| Maximum Attendees: | 30 |
| Cost Range: | SAA Member $199 ARL Member $289 Employees of SAA Member Institutions $299 Nonmember $319 |
| Provider: | Society of American Archivists |
| Sponsored by: | Boston College |
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This information is provided as a convenience for informational purposes only; it does not constitute an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
