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- Digital archivist Jen Weintraub is in charge of creating disk images/removing data from carriers. She should have completed this work by the time the collection is ready to be processed. Check in with her about where the working files are kept (on the R drive).
- During your survey process, view (as best you can) the born digital files to be processed. Schedule a meeting with Jen and possibly Pablo Morales-Henry to assess the born digital files. They should be able to provide archivists with a list of files that were removed from carriers; and a list of carriers that could not be read. If carriers could not be read on the first try, archivists should assess (in collaboration with Jen and Pablo) whether or not we should pursue other options for reading those files.During your survey process, view (as best you can) the born digital files to be processed. Jen and Pablo can let you know which
- You and Jen may start by looking at the files in FTK (Forensic ToolKit software), especially if it is a big collection. You will be able to mark the ones you definitely want to keep and process, the ones you definitely do not want, and then ones you want or need to look at in more detail and assess further. In the future, we will also be able to note which files have restrictions and what kinds of restrictions using bookmarks in FTK.
- Once we know which ones you want to keep and look at further we’ll export them to the Digital Collections Storage. Some files can be viewed using Quickview at your own desk, and which files will need to some can only be viewed by using FTK Imager on a forensic workstation.
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