Redaction of personal, private, and sensitive information from born-digital materials is increasingly important for repositories. Collection sizes are often too large to process without automation – the assistance of software designed specifically to identify and classify such information and present it in a format that facilitates redaction decisions. Distinguishing between items that may be redacted automatically and those that require manual intervention is similarly important. This paper examines the identification, organization, and redaction of private and sensitive information identified within born-digital materials, particularly those contained on disk images extracted from fixed and removable media carriers. We identify specific items of interest in file systems and individual file formats that may be targets for redaction, and present two approaches to managing and providing access to redacted materials using open source tools developed for the BitCurator Access project (bca-webtools) along with supporting digital forensics software.

Beginning in 2014 Stanford University Libraries has made dramatic changes in how it operates its Born-Digital / Forensics Labs (BDFLs). The goal has been a shift from a boutique lab operated by a single digital archivist to a production service that can handle digital collection materials and patron requests in bulk. This paper will outline Stanford's new practices and will include a discussion of how we budget, staff our labs, track our work, configure our hardware / software workstations, and generate statistics to support the preservation of our research collections.

In 2000 Harvard Library began populating the Digital Repository Service (DRS), its digital preservation repository, with digitized text, images and audio. Over the years the Library continued to add preservation support to the DRS for new formats including born digital websites, PDF documents and email. Library collections however continued to grow and diversify to include a wide range of formats not supported by the DRS, including video and a variety of born-digital formats. In 2013 the Library began to bridge that preservation support gap by refining the process of how new formats are supported in the DRS. This paper describes the new process, which is a more consistent workflow and includes external expertise; as well as analysis tools that could be used by other institutions to broaden the range of digital formats that they are able to preserve.

The International Image Interoperability Framework (http://iiif.io) is a community of academic and national libraries, research institutions, museums, archives, nonprofits and commercial organizations that are committed to interoperable image delivery on the web. IIIF has defined common application programming interfaces (APIs) for image and metadata delivery, has supported the development of best-in-class image delivery and comparison software, and has cultivated a growing and sustainable community model for interoperable image repositories. This paper provides an overview of IIIF, with a focus on its origins, rationale and benefits to users and institutions. We describe the motivating use cases and applications for image interoperability, walk through the technical framework and supported APIs, and highlight IIIF-compatible software for image analysis, comparison and annotation. We conclude with a discussion of the IIIF community process and future directions.

RDA (Resource Description & Access) is a new cataloging standard that has been implemented in libraries in several countries over the world. It is based on the conceptual model FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographical Records) and its rules have been influenced by archival descriptive rules. Thus RDA provides an opportunity for collaboration between archives and libraries. Umeå University Library is currently running the project RDA – An Opportunity for Archive and Library Collaboration, with support from Lund University Library, the National Library of Sweden and the National Archives. The aim of this project is to explore how RDA can be applied on archival materials and how FRBR entities can be related to aforementioned materials. RIMMF (RDA in Many Metadata Formats) is a cataloging training tool and has been used to visualize RDA and FRBR. RDA Toolkit has been used as a support tool in the cataloging process. Different models for applying RDA on archival materials have been developed in the project. The models have separate advantages and disadvantages, for example when it comes to creating searchability and to link archival materials with published materials. Using RDA brings possibilities to create linked data useful for archives, libraries and other interested parties. RDA has the potential to work as a standard for describing both archival and bibliographic materials.

Web-based global news content, especially when delivered via social media, is highly dynamic and hence subject to the detriments of link rot and content drift immediately after publication. To address these issues, we are building SoLoGlo, a capture and archival service for social media collections that supports the longevity of multi-perspective histories of world events. SoLoGlo incorporates functions to collect and preserve content, proactively archiving embedded web resources, performing rapid analysis and data mining tasks, and linking related content between otherwise disjoint collections.

A current challenge in the scientific, humanities and cultural heritage realm is the storage of and access to the increasing volume of digital datasets, paramount to advancing knowledge and assuring the future of research. The European Union has established a number of research infrastructures focused on addressing access and sustainability of digital data, while initiatives in the Unites States appear less integrated. The establishment of standardized digital protocols for storing and accessing scientific cultural heritage data is critical to ensuring interoperability between heritage institutions, and the preservation of international culture in libraries archives, and museums. The Preservation Research and Testing Division of the Library of Congress has moved forward with an initiative to standardize and make accessible, data from a range of scientific instrumentation, including related metadata files and assuring open access file formats.

The Moshe Safdie Archive is the largest fonds administered by the John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection (CAC), Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University, Montreal. In the 25 years since Safdie's original deposit to McGill University, advances in technology have changed the nature of architectural design and, consequently, how researchers access the collection [1], [2]. We were motivated to create a single, streamlined digitization workflow shared by both the Safdie Architects archivist and the CAC staff to economize time, labor, and resources. Additionally, through the use of embedded metadata developed with input from the architect himself, we sought to improve access to these materials as well as to facilitate effective research on the major themes in Moshe Safdie's work, which spans the globe and multiple decades.

PIVAJ is a platform for archived digitized newspaper emphasizing articles: extracting them from digitized documents by automated page layout analysis, OCRing them, indexing their text transcription to allow users to search for content. Crowdsourcing is used to improve the quality of the indexing, by correcting the transcription and by tagging articles with keywords. The platform has been used to give Web access to 550 000 articles generated from a digitized local newspaper. Current developments include further improvements to its OCR as well as graphical interfaces for the management of the platform.

In February 2013, Cornell University received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop PAFDAO: preservation and access frameworks for complex digital media art objects. This research and development project was undertaken in cooperation with the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, part of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. This paper provides an overview of PAFDAO's outcomes, focusing on technical and also curatorial components of the project that might be applied to comparable collections at other institutions. The authors outline their imaging workflow and metadata framework, and describe their methods for addressing questions of cultural authenticity and considerations related to their decision to adopt emulation as an access strategy.