Registration Fee: Early-Bird / Regular
Society of American Archivists (SAA) Member: $199 / $249
Employee of SAA Member Institution: $239 / $299
Nonmember: $279 / $349
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, and 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.
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.
This course is specifically designed as a precursor and prerequisite to the two-day Digital Forensics for Archivists: Advanced DAS course.
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
Archivists, manuscript curators, librarians, and others who are responsible for acquiring or transferring collections of digital materials—particularly those that are received on removable media
Basic computer literacy; participants should understand how to install and use software tools listed in the syllabus and be able to read and comprehend basic (though detailed) technical concepts
If you intend to pursue the DAS Certificate, you will need to pass the examination for this course.
Attendance is limited to 35.