Monthly Archives for April 2020

5. Bagging It Up

Putting it all Together The final step in my workflow is to create a ‘bag’ of info, which is an information package with a specific file structure formatted by BagIt. Digital Media Project Coordinator Liz Maddon writes that Bagit provides a directory structure and a specifies a set of files for transferring and storing files […]

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4. Running Reports

Having made a disk image, I now wanted to make use of BitCurator’s Forensics and Reporting function. The disk image is in an E01 file that can’t actually be opened on BitCurator itself, although there is software out there to facilitate this. Running reports is a way of reading the raw data of the disk […]

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3. Taking a Disk Image

Wait…what is a disk image and why is important? A disk image is a single file that contains an exact digital replica of a piece of a data storage device, for example a USB, a CD-ROM, a floppy disk, or a hard drive. Unlike simply copying files off of a storage device, disk images preserve […]

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2. Photographing the Disks and Accessing BitCurator

External Clues Looking at my workflow, the first stage in my ingest process is to photograph the floppy disk I am working with. The reasoning for photographing the disk in this way is twofold:  It records any useful information that the exterior of the disk may carry, including that which may give a clue about what […]

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1. Getting Into The Flow of Things

First things first…I need some structure! If I was an archivist working with floppy disks in a professional capacity, I would either already have or would create a practical workflow to follow. In my project, I want to create a simplified, easy to execute digital forensics ingest workflow that considers the specific formats I’m working […]

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