diff --git a/episodes/01-digital-forensics-for-archives.md b/episodes/01-digital-forensics-for-archives.md index 1b4fc07..415d19e 100644 --- a/episodes/01-digital-forensics-for-archives.md +++ b/episodes/01-digital-forensics-for-archives.md @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ Become familiar with BitCurator and its toolset ## Digital Forensics - +Digital forensics refers to a suite of activities and tools to preserve +the original context of digital materials (e.g., the system timestamps and OS structure) +and extract content at the bitstream level from damaged or deleted digital content. ## Archivists + Digital Forensics: Why @@ -40,6 +42,12 @@ What potential uses for these tools are you considering in your context? ## Enter BitCurator Environment (BCE) +To address this, a group of archivists and researchers developed the BitCurator Environment, or BCE. +The BCE is a suite of open-source digital forensics softwares that are particularly useful to archivists in tracking creation metadata, structure, file identification, and documenting provenance. It even contains some built-in writeblockers and other tools to preserve original order and chain of custody. +BitCurator tools are grouped within an Ubuntu-based Linux environment and can be run virtually +or installed directly as the main OS of a workstation, and together this is all known as the BCE. +We will discuss BCE more in the next episode. + ## Resources There are many resources that explain how to use