Digital forensics and digital preservation: Investigating good practice Watch Party

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In Jeremy Leighton John’s DPC Technology Watch Report of 2012, he described digital forensics as “a promising source of tools and approaches for facilitating digital preservation and curation, specifically for protecting and investigating evidence from the past” and further notes that “forensic technology makes it possible to: identify privacy issues; establish a chain of custody for provenance; employ write protection for capture and transfer; and detect forgery or manipulation”. In the years since this publication, much work has been carried out by the digital preservation community to further these techniques and to refine and build on this definition. This event offers an opportunity to hear a range of current perspectives and implementations and to join in with discussions on this topic.

In an event that will be held on the 26th February, we will hear from a range of speakers with different experiences of digital forensics and its use in digital preservation. Speakers will include digital preservation practitioners at different stages of working with the techniques, communities creating guidance or tools and academic researchers.

In this ‘watch party’ event we will listen back to some of the presentations at this earlier event as well as hearing from an additional speaker from the National Library of New Zealand.

This event will provide an opportunity to learn from others and to join wider discussion about digital forensics and how we use it as a community.

Discussion about this event on social media can be followed using the hashtag #DPC_forensics.

Programme (Times in UTC)

02:00 - Welcome and introduction

02:05 - Maintaining Good Practice through Policy in Digital Preservation and Digital Forensics - Martin Gengenbach, Digital Preservation Policy and Outreach Specialist, National Library of New Zealand

02:30 - Watch recorded presentation 1

02:50 - Watch recorded presentation 2

03:10 - Discussion

03:30 - Close

Recordings (DPC Members, please log in to view)

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