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Installing the BitCurator VM.

Creating a forensic disk image.

Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

The BitCurator project brings open source digital forensics tools and techniques to collecting institutions. BitCurator packages these technologies in an environment where users can create forensically-packaged disk images, perform sophisticated triage tasks on born-digital materials, extract and transform metadata, and redact sensitive information.

Want to know more? See our in-depth description. Or, look over some of our publications. News, contacts, and updates on research activities can be found at bitcurator.net. You can also follow us on Twitter.

Downloads The BitCurator environment is currently available as a virtual machine and as an ISO image. The default username and password for the BitCurator environment are both "bcadmin". Download the BitCurator 0.2.4 Virtual Machine A ready-to-run Linux (Ubuntu 12.04LTS) environment. Windows users will need a utility such as 7zip to extract the files. Download BitCurator 0.2.4 Installation ISO. An installable version of the BitCurator environment. You may also use it to create a custom VM, or create a bootable image using Pendrive Linux's Universal USB installer. Source Code and Packages Our public source code repository includes code, scripts, documentation, .deb packages that are incorporated into our distributed environment.

Documentation BitCurator project documentation. Here you will find installation guides for the virtual machine and ISO, project requirements, and developer documentation as it becomes available. Main documentation page On the main documentation you can find information on environment Installation, a series of How-To Guides, and hardware Requirements. Frequently Asked Questions This section includes general answers about the scope and utility of the project, notes on resolving common issues, and other helpful items. Requirements and Design Docs Here you will find the Main Requirements Document and some Additional Requirements Documents. You can also check out our Developer Documentation and Changelogs.

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Acknowledgements

The BitCurator project is a joint effort led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SILS) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). BitCurator is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.