![]() ![]() What would the foundation for all this look like? What programs would you install to educate and demonstrate a wide variety of digital preservation and administration tasks: disk imaging, metadata extraction, metadata manipulation and transformation, digital forensics, file transfer and packaging, fixity management, on and on… while minimizing the time spent installing and managing software later on?įreeware preferred, GUIs or CLI tasks likely to include demo-ing metadata extraction/manipulation/management, disk imaging (2/2) They might also be used for workshops, like my own Talking Tech series, or for other invited guest speakers. Perhaps even more excitingly (for me, anyway), I had the chance to design, from the ground-up, what a “MIAP laptop” should look like – a laptop that, from startup, would be of use to our students in even vaguely digital-related courses… which, yes, is all of them, but especially: Metadata, Digital Literacy, Handling Complex Media, or Digital Preservation. So, in addition to the MacBook Pros already there, we had the chance to add eight more laptops to this supply. So I ultimately viewed these three computers as a sort of pilot program, justifying a larger fleet of similar laptops that could potentially serve an entire class of 10 or 11 students at the same time (our usual cohort size) rather than just three people. These were, I think, quite a bit of success, and these laptops continue to be used on the regular. These were intended, less for forensics really, and more as a general purpose resource – for MIAP students to use in any course, say, if they forgot their own laptop at home, or their own laptop was having difficulty during a hands-on lab exercise. But besides breathing new life into some of our existing workflows, this project also presented an exciting new opportunity.įor the past couple of years, we’d had three contemporary (~2013) MacBook Pro laptops available in our digital forensics lab. This was excellent news – our video digitization stations were not the only piece of equipment that had started lagging a bit and creating choke points around archival projects. Early this summer, the department learned a development proposal we had submitted to improve MIAP’s computer hardware was successfully funded. ![]()
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