Born-Digital Records in Practice at UAlbany

Gregory Wiedeman
University Archivist


Some Background

M.E. Grenander Special Collections & Archives
University at Albany, SUNY


Overview of University Archives


Collecting Background


What does this have to do with Born-Digital Records


A Bit about File Systems


How File Systems Work


Inefficient Storage


Efficient Storage


File Systems are designed for Efficiency

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Where is a File?



Where do Files Live?


Where do Files Live?


NTFS on Windows

Brian Carrier, File System Forensic Analysis (Addison-Wesley, 2005), p. 283


$MFT (Master File Table)

Carrier, p. 280


$MFT (Master File Table)

Carrier, p. 295


$MFT Timestamps Demo


Deleting Files


Efficiency in Sectors


Efficiency in Sectors

Carrier, p. 188


Slack Space

Carrier, p. 188


Imaging the Disk

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Disk Images


Ben Goldman, “Outfitting a Born-Digital Archives Program”
Practical Technology for Archives   Issue 2 (June 2014)


What Can We Learn from a Disk Image?


So, What does all this mean?


Overview of University Archives


Records Created by the University are Public Records

University Records are subject to FOIL


Born-Digital Records Collecting in Practice



ANTS issues



Transfer Scripts


createSIP.py demo



What is a SIP?


Into ArchivesSpace


Born-Digital Photography


Maintenance


Espy Project


Fedora 4 Data Model


Portland Common Data Model


Hydra::Works



Other Projects


Questions