The SCAPE project is focussed on large scale digital preservation, to be able to manage large scale collections then it is important to work within a policy framework. Developing policy in a new and changing area can be hard and so the SCAPE Policy Representation team have worked on creating a three tier policy framework, a catalogue of policy elements which can be used by organisations as a starting point for creating their own preservation procedure policy. SCAPE has produced automated watch and planning tools which can use machine readable policy to ensure appropriate outcomes and the SCAPE suggested process for this will be outlined.

The webinar will cover the SCAPE three level policy framework, discuss the catalogue and how it might be used and describes how machine readable policy can be derived from the catalogue elements.

Who should attend?
This webinar will be of interest to those responsible for making digital preservation policy, or those who wish to use their existing policy in SCAPE watch and planning tools (SCOUT and Plato) Note use of these tools will not be discussed.

There are twenty-five places available on a first come, first serve basis.

This webinar will give an overview of JHOVE2, the free and open-source tool for characterizing digital objects. It will cover the motivation for creating a second-generation version of JHOVE some of the new features of the tool, including the ability to perform not just format identification, validation, and feature extraction, but also assessment (a policy-based determination of the acceptability of a format instance, regardless of its validation). It will discuss JHOVE2’s more sophisticated data model of a format instance, embracing complex digital objects that can be composed of more than one file, each of a possibly different format. It will provide pointers on JHOVE2’s setup and use. It will briefly introduce the tool’s architecture, and ways in which it has been and can continue to be extended to include more formats, building on existing libraries and tools.

There are twenty-five places available on a first come, first serve basis.

This webinar provides an introduction to file format identification and characterisation tools which have been developed or extended as part of the SCAPE Project.

It covers the basic principals of file format identification, and shows how format information drives digital preservation workflows.

Participants will be given an overview of file format registries, and their role in digital preservation, and will see demonstrations of identification and characterisation tools including fido and tika.

We will provide a Virtual Machine image with samples files and step-by-step worksheets to allow participants to try out these exercises for themselves after the webinar with support.

Learning outcomes (by the end of the webinar and exercises, participants
will be able to):

• Distinguish between different file types and identify the requirements for characterising each of them.
• Carry out identification and characterisation experiments on example files.
• Compare characterisation and identification tools and understand their advantages and disadvantages when used in different scenarios.

Session Lead: Carl Wilson, OPF
Date: Friday 25 October
Time: 12 noon BST / 13:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour (please note this includes the presentation and demonstrations. Practical exercises can be carried out after the webinar).

There are 25 places available which will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

*all places have now been filled*

In this webinar, we’ll be examining the benefits of capturing and preserving forensically-packaged disk images in collecting institutions. Along the way, we’ll get some hands on experience with the open source BitCurator environment, freely available as a virtual machine download from http://wiki.bitcurator.net/.

Some of the topics we’ll be exploring:
– Forensic disk image formats, and capturing forensic disk images with Guymager
– Extracting and analyzing potentially private and sensitive information from imaged media
– File system analysis using The Sleuth Kit and fiwalk
– Generating reports using custom BitCurator tools

Session lead: Kam Woods, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina

Time: 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CET

Duration: 1 hour

There are 25 places available. These will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.