[Air-L] EVENT SERIES: Born-Digital Evidence and Historical Scholarship

[James A Hodges]

Correction: The streaming link for recordings from our first event is
actually
https://utexas.zoom.us/rec/share/NmGwC3zUGzklTWRpoLu7U5rcANL9SP-VU_7hnwbkmX-O3pib23MPECGHgx10EQ_a.zmsQTWZpxcjfhxan

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:08 PM James A Hodges <james.hodges at rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> Good afternoon, and apologies for cross-posting:
>
> I'm writing to announce a series of events that I have co-organized with
> Thorsten Ries (UT Austin, Germanic Studies) and the UT Austin iSchool
> colloquium series.
>
> The first event has already occurred, but there's still time to join us
> for the next two panels! We also have a video recording available from the
> first event (See below).
>
> Series Description:
> This series features international subject expert talks from the libraries
> and archives sector, a digital investigation collective and from the
> cybersecurity sector to consider born-digital evidence from a Historical
> Scholarship and Humanities perspective. Our digital present poses
> challenges to long-term preservation and curation of born-digital archives,
> but also to their cautious selection, critical appraisal and methodological
> analysis and interpretation as historical evidence. Establishing, proving
> and maintaining the chain of digital evidence, evaluating the evidential
> status of born-digital sources and interpreting the traces of historical
> digital events will be the daily practice of historians studying our
> present time. The talk series Born-digital Evidence and Historical
> Scholarship is a starter for the conversation about how we establish this
> practice and build the skillsets, standards and procedures for Historical
> Scholarship and the Humanities in coordination with libraries and archives.
>
>
> EVENT 1:
> Aric Toler (Bellingcat) and Charlotte Godart (Bellingcat)
> Date: April 12, 10-11:30am CST
>
> Aric Toler is the training and research director at Bellingcat, an online
> publication specialized in open-source intelligence. Aric's research
> including Russian intelligence operations, the war in the Donbas, and the
> 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. Aric
> received his Master's degree in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the
> University of Kansas in 2013 and has since been working with Bellingcat.
>
> Charlotte Godart is an open source investigator & trainer for Bellingcat.
> She researches conflict zones, breaking news events, and the spread of
> disinformation. She creates online training material that is available for
> anyone interested in pursuing digital verification through the Bellingcat
> website. She also travels globally to teach online verification techniques
> and methodology to journalists, researchers, activists, and lawyers. Before
> Bellingcat, she was at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley.
>
> For those who were unable to join us, a recording is available at the
> following URL:
> https://utexas.zoom.us/rec/share/rcRVKJKbzOVnck4rjvf5UtXgKM4fnyv0Rr0edmx6W5zCyP4-rNkYYZf_qkPjRiLX.STgLAkcb4CtR9z4e
>
> EVENT 2:
> Euan Cochrane (Yale) and David A. Bliss (UT Austin)
> Date: April 19, 10-11:30 CST
> Event: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/events/256
> Registration:
> https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtceutqz0sH9wBI0GnrcS2PsoP12eCMd_v
>
> Euan Cochrane is Digital Preservation Manager for Yale University
> Libraries. He has a particular interest in software preservation and the
> use of emulation to maintain access to born digital information. Before
> joining Yale, Euan helped to establish the data archive for official
> statistics at Statistics New Zealand, in addition to working in the Digital
> Continuity team at Archives New Zealand and consulting for Deloitte in
> Australia on Information Management.
>
> David Bliss is the Systems and Digital Archivist at UT Libraries, where he
> is responsible for a variety of digital preservation infrastructure and
> processes for libraries collections. Prior to April 2021, he was the
> Digital Processing Archivist at the Benson Latin American Collection at UT
> Austin, focused primarily on implementing and supporting post-custodial
> digitization projects based at partner repositories in Latin America. David
> is a 2017 graduate of the UT School of Information.
>
> EVENT 3:
> Matthias Vallentin (Tenzir)
> Date: April 23, 10am CST
> Event: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/events/257
> Registration:
> https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd--urDMrGNWIVyrmeDoSnrQaDwj3mekk
>
> Matthias Vallentin is founder and CEO at Tenzir. His PhD work at UC
> Berkeley about network forensics laid the foundation for the software that
> Tenzir now develops an open security analytics platform to empower
> defenders. Prior to founding Tenzir, Matthias worked on high-performance
> network monitoring to provide security operators with in-depth visibility
> about their infrastructure.
>
> Looking forward to the events! I hope that you can join us.
>
> Sincerely,
> James
>
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>
> *JAMES A. HODGES, Ph.D.*
> Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> University of Texas at Austin
> School of Information
>


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*JAMES A. HODGES, Ph.D.*
Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
School of Information