The BCC Program Committee is pleased to announce that the preliminary program is now available for the BitCurator Users Forum.

The Forum will be held virtually October 12-14, 2021. Each day will include workshops, lightning talks, and themed sessions on starting from scratch, iteration and scalability, implementing "good enough" practices, issues pertaining to access and discovery, and hearing from intersecting perspectives and new voices. There will also be a return of the "Great Question!" session where attendees can ask anonymous questions in an open forum, and two Birds of a Feather sessions for BIPOC and Students and New Professionals.

NEW this year: BitCuratorEdu Educators' Summit

The BitCuratorEdu Project, in collaboration with the 2021 BitCurator Users Forum, is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a BitCuratorEdu Educators' Summit on Friday, October 15 (the day after the Forum). Registration for the Educators' Summit will coincide with registration for the Forum. Registration for both events will open on August 16. 

See the preliminary programs for BUF21 and the Summit here.

About the BitCurator Users Forum

The BitCurator Users Forum brings together representatives from libraries, archives, museums, and related information professions engaged in or considering digital archival work to acquire, better understand, and make available born-digital materials. The three-day forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital archiving and related digital analysis workflows with hands-on activities for users at all levels of experience with digital archival methods in general, including the BitCurator environment, and other tools for use in digital analysis and curation.

Program Committee

The BitCurator Users Forum is organized by the BCC’s Program Committee:

Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, UCI Libraries, Leadership Team
Brian Dietz, NC State University Libraries, Leadership Team
Lourdes Johnson, SJSU iSchool 2019 Graduate, Leadership Team
Shira Peltzman, UCLA Libraries, Leadership Team
David Cirella, Yale University Libraries
Elizabeth Dunham, Arizona State University
Jessica Farrell, Educopia Institute
Wendy Hagenmaier, Georgia Tech
Mary Jackson, NYU MIAP 2020 Graduate
Monique Lassere, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Thandokazi Maceba, UCT Libraries, University of Cape Town
Margo Padilla, New-York Historical Society
Caitlin Perry, Educopia Institute
Kelly Phillips, Northern Arizona University
Alice Prael, Yale University Libraries