Shelly Black elected to BitCurator Consortium Executive Council

Digital Archivist Shelly Black has been elected to a two-year term on the BitCurator Consortium Executive Council, joining a cohort of two other new council members.

“I'm honored to have been elected to the Executive Council, and I look forward to representing NC State in the digital archiving community,” Black says. “The BitCurator Consortium has provided invaluable learning opportunities and tools for practitioners of all levels. As an incoming Council member, I'm thrilled to give back and help guide the sustainable development of these resources.”

The BitCurator Consortium promotes the development of innovative, sustainable curation of born-digital materials by any organization responsible for caring for such materials. The consortium’s vision is to address the articulated needs of its community—through training, collaboration, research, software development, documentation, integration, scripts—while advocating for the expansion of digital forensics practice worldwide.

The Executive Council is the governing body of the consortium and directs its activities. The group provides top-level leadership on critical decisions, formalizes documentation, and ensures ongoing programmatic success.