BitCurator is a research and development effort designed to bring digital forensics tools and techniques to archives, libraries, and other collecting institutions. The simplest way to get up and running with tools developed by the BitCurator team (and 3rd party tools packaged by us) is to download our virtual machine.
The most current BitCurator virtual machine can be downloaded from
The default username and password for the virtual machine are as follows:
- Username:
bcadmin - Password:
bcadmin
The core BitCurator tools have been tested in Ubuntu 12.04LTS and Ubuntu 14.04LTS. To clone the master BitCurator repository, run:
- git clone https://github.com/kamwoods/bitcurator
The installation script bc-install.sh will install required dependencies, the BitCurator Python tools, and other supporting software. (Note: In pre-1.0 releases, this script is a work-in-progress)
- ./bc-install.sh
The latest technical and user documentation is available at http://wiki.bitcurator.net.
The BitCurator logo, BitCurator project documentation, and other non-software products of the BitCurator team are subject to the the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (CC By 2.0).
Unless otherwise indicated, software items in this repository are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3. See the text file "COPYING" for further details about the terms of this license.
In addition to software produced by the BitCurator team, BitCurator packages and modifies open source software produced by other developers. Licenses and attributions are retained here where applicable.
Notes and acknowledgements:
Files in "/scripts/bash_scripts" and "/scripts/nautilus_scripts" are based on original code developed by their respective authors and distributed under respective versions of the GNU General Public License.
The py3fpdf code is a local fork of J. Rivera's Python 3 port of the fpdf library distributed under the LGPL.
See http://wiki.bitcurator.net/ for up-to-date project information.
BitCurator is a joint project led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Libaray Science and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. BitCurator is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.