OPF Hackathon: A Practical Approach to Disk Images & Digital Forensics

The world of digital forensics offers many useful and practical techniques for capturing, understanding and preserving digital collections. This event will provide participants with a chance to learn what digital forensics has to offer the digital preservation community by getting hands on with data, tools and new techniques. Our expert facilitators will be on hand to guide you through these challenging concepts and processes in a manner that is easy to understand and apply. This blog post provides an overview of the application of forensic techniques and emulation technologies in digital preservation.

Who should attend?

Digital preservation practitioners; digital librarians and archivists, digital curators, repository managers and those with an interest in understanding and working as a team to solve concrete preservation challenges. Developers who write digital preservation software, and are interested in the technical challenges of solving concrete digital preservation challenges.

More information

The overview of the event and practical information can be seen on the OPF wiki: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2013-05-15+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Disk+Images+and+Digital+Forensics+%28Copenhagen%29.

Registration

Please register for the event at: http://opf-digital-forensics.eventbrite.com/.