This tutorial will prepare participants to use the open-source BitCurator environment and BitCurator Access Webtools to acquire, process and provide access to born-digital materials. 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 feature 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 specialized scripts to perform batch activities, generate and interpret Digital Forensics XML (DFXML), generate a variety of standard and customized reports (including PREMIS records), identify various forms of sensitive data within collections, and provide browser-based search and navigation of files and folders.

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