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Welcome to Kam Woods' web site.

Kam Woods is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include long-term digital preservation, digital archiving, and the application of digital forensics tools and techniques to archival and preservation data analysis and management. (Read full bio.)

Download my [CV].

Recent Presentations and Events

• [Personal Digital Archiving 2012], San Francisco, California
• [CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections], Chapel Hill, NC, January 6, 2012 ([Slides])
• [BitCurator Project], Professional Expert Panel Meeting, College Park, MD, December 9-10, 2011
• [Practical Tools for Digital Preservation: A Hackathon], York, UK, September 27-29, 2011
• [CurateCamp], San Jose, CA, August 15-16, 2011
• Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS), New Orleans, LA, August 1-3, 2011
• Digital Forensics for Preservation, Oxford, UK, June 28, 2011
• At the Nexus of Analog and Digital: A Symposium for Preservation Educators, Ann Arbor, MI, June 5-7, 2011
• Personal Digital Archiving, San Francisco, CA, February 24-25, 2011

Full list of past presentations (including media and links) in my Presentations Archive

Working Papers

Here are working and draft papers relevant to some of the topics in my talks:

• Coming soon

Recent Publications

A selection of recent conference, journal, and other publications:

Academic

1. Woods, Kam, Christopher A. Lee and Simson Garfinkel Extending digital repository architectures to support disk image preservation and access, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital libraries, 2011.
2. Woods, K., Lee, Christopher, Garfinkel, S., Dittrich, D., Russell, A., Kearton, K. (2011) Creating Realistic Corpora for Forensic and Security Education, ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security, and Law (ADFSL 2011), Richmond, VA, May 25-27, 2011.

White Papers and Technical Publications

1. Lee, Christopher A. and Kam Woods [Digital Acquisition Learning Laboratory: A White Paper] November 2011.

Current Research Applications of digital forensics tools and techniques in archives and libraries Data Triage Reducing bottlenecks in digital information management workflows You can find a complete list of my research on my Research page.

Teaching I am not currently teaching at UNC, but guest lecture in several classes. Most recently, these included: Spring 2011 - INLS 465 - Information Technology for Digital Collections Spring 2011 - INLS 525 - Electronic Records Management You can also see a complete list of courses I have taught.

Current Projects Developing open source data preservation and triage software as part of BitCurator, described at the main BitCurator site. Extending the functionality of Simson Garfinkel's bulk extractor for use by collecting institutions. Cross-walks for Digital Forensics XML to digital preservation metadata standards.

Completed Projects The SUDOC Virtualization Project (2007-2010) FDLP CD-ROM Preservation Fonts and information loss Format migration

Useful Resources Current Toolset -- The tools that I use in my research Open Source Computer Science Books -- A good list How to search the computer science literature Mac Resources LaTeX Resources Python Resources Web Resources Windows Resources XML Resources

Where to find me online ACM Digital Library Author Profile Or just click: Official ACM Publications LinkedIn Profile

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Other sites of interest

• http://forensicwiki.org --- Wiki for computer forensics

Local Contact Information

919-966-3598 (Office)
919-962-8071 (Fax)
Emergencies: Email me for cell contact.

Kam Woods
School of Information and Library Science, Manning 100
University of North Carolina, Campus Box #3360, Chapel Hill, NC 27499