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Inventory of Hypatia Collections

Stanford

Xanadu

A Marc record for the collection is available in SearchWorks.

Collection consists of 6 hard drives and there is a very basic finding aid describing the contents of the collection available at http://findingaids.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=ead/mss/m1292.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;brand=default;query=xanadu

File Structure of the Collection on disk

Contents of the collection are currently stored on \\sul-wallaby\ForensicsLab\01-OBJECT_POOL\M1292 Xanadu

Directory Structure is as follows:

  • Disk Images
  • Photo Images of Drives
  • EAD

The Disk Images folder contains 3 forensic disk images from 3 physical hard drives.  The forensic disk images are named CMxx.dd with the "CM" standing for computer media.  This folder also contains two additional metadata files for each forensic disk image.  The first is a .txt file that contains technical metadata about the forensic imaging process (example CM01.001\). The second is a .csv file that lists the partitions and files contained on the hard drive (example CM01.001\). This file also contains the root path, creation dates, and whether the file was deleted on the media and subsequentially recovered.

The Photo Images of Drives folder contains digital photographs of the source media (JPEG), in this case images of the front and back of the harddrives. Currently, this folder only contains images of a single harddrive.

The EAD folder contains the Encoded Archival Description file for the Xanadu collection (example EAD\). This file currently does not contain any pointers to where the hard drives are physically located in the collection. We are also currently missing reference identifiers to the computer media in the finding aid. I believe this is just an oversight but I'm following up with Special Collections to determine why they are missing.

Yale

Collection title

Number of files/objects

Level of description in EAD

James Tobin papers

27 disk images + metadata (approx 80 files total)

Disks are described individually within EAD as separate components

Virginia

Hull

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