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The BitCurator Environment is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed to support the needs of library, archive, and museum professionals processing born-digital materials. It includes a suite of open source disk imaging, digital forensics, and data analysis tools curated to support modern workflows.
This is the release management wiki for the BitCurator Environment. It contains installation documentation, release notes, and information on technical requirements for the environment.
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Visit the BitCurator Quick Start Guide for detailed instructions on installing and getting started with the BitCurator Environment. The Quick Start page will always apply to the current major release of BitCurator. Previous releases can be located in the sidebar of this page, and include the text (#.X.X) denoting which major version they apply to.
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Visit the Releases page to see a list of current and past releases.
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Visit our GitHub Pages site at https://bitcurator.github.io/ for general information on the history of the BitCurator environment, along with an overview of the repositories associated with various BitCurator tools.
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Ask the community a question, or peruse past discussions on our User Forum at https://groups.google.com/g/bitcurator-users.
The BitCurator logo, BitCurator project documentation, and other non-software products of BitCurator contributors are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC By 4.0). See individual repositories for software licenses.
The BitCurator environment is volunteer-maintained. BitCurator was originally developed in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-2014).
Ongoing support for the BitCurator environment is managed by the BitCurator Consortium. Find out more at: