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digital preservation, digital curation, social informatics, born-digital
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Biography

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill where I teach and conduct research on born-digital cultural heritage and community-driven approaches to digital curation. Previously, I worked as an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS) at North Carolina Central University. From 2016-2018, I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Micah Altman at MIT's Program in Informatics.

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Employment (3)

University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, US

2023-07-01 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Information and Library Science)
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Alexandra Chassanoff

North Carolina Central University: Durham, NC, US

2019-08-01 to 2023-06-30 | Assistant professor (School of Library and Information Sciences)
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Educopia Institute: Atlanta, GA, US

2018-05-01 to 2019-08-01 | Research Program Officer
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, NC, US

2010-01-01 to 2016-12-01 | PhD in Information Science (School of Information and Library Science)
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, NC, US

2008-01-01 to 2009-12-31 | Masters Degree in Information Science (School of Information and Library Science)
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Professional activities (1)

MIT Libraries: Cambridge, MA, US

2016-09-15 to 2018-05-01 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Program on Information Science)
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Works (25)

Building Capacity and Resilience for Born-Digital Stewardship Communities of Practice

DMPTool
2024 | Data management plan
Contributors: Alexandra Chassanoff
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Building Capacity for Born-Digital Stewardship Through Communities of Practice

2022-04-19 | Data management plan
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California Digital Library DMP Tool
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Beyond the workflow: archivists’ aspirations for digital curation practices

Archival Science
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Colin Post; Alexandra Chassanoff
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The OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows

Educopia Institute
2020-06 | Report
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Curation as “Interoperability With the Future”: Preserving Scholarly Research Software in Academic Libraries

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
2020-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexandra Chassanoff; Micah Altman
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Digital curation at work: Modeling workflows for digital archival materials

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85070944724

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15525996

Contributors: Post, C.; Chassanoff, A.; Lee, C.; Rabkin, A.; Zhang, Y.; Skinner, K.; Meister, S.
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Historians' Experiences Using Digitized Archival Photographs as Evidence

The American Archivist
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048319248

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03609081

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Software Curation in Research Libraries: Practice and Promise

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
2018 | Journal article
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Alexandra Chassanoff

Community Cultivation: A Field Guide

Zenodo
2018-11-07 | Report
Contributors: Katherine Skinner; Hannah Ballard; Alexandra Chassanoff; Christina Drummond; Martin Halbert; David Horth; Nick Krabbenhoeft; Sarah Lippincott; Sam Meister; Jessica Meyerson et al.
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Navigating Unmountable Media with the Digital Forensics XML File System

International Journal of Digital Curation
2017 | Journal article
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Alexandra Chassanoff

Digital Preservation Metadata Practice for Disk Image Access

Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners
2016 | Book chapter
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Providing Access to Disk Image Content: A Preliminary Approach and Workflow

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation
2015 | Conference poster
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Alexandra Chassanoff

From Code to Community: Building and Sustaining BitCurator through Community Engagement

2014 | Report
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Integrating Digital Forensics Techniques into Curatorial Tasks: A Case Study

IJDC
2014-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Sam Meister; Alexandra Chassanoff
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Alexandra Chassanoff via Crossref Metadata Search

Managing and Transforming Digital Forensics Metadata for Digital Collections

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2-6, 2013
2013 | Conference paper
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Studies on the scalability of web preservation

10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
2013 | Conference paper
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Alexandra Chassanoff

From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics Into Practice in Collecting Institutions

2013-09 | Report
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Alexandra Chassanoff

Historians and the Use of Primary Source Materials in the Digital Age

The American Archivist
2013-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexandra Chassanoff
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Alexandra Chassanoff via Crossref Metadata Search
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Integrating digital forensics into born-digital workflows: The BitCurator project

Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Gengenbach; Alexandra Chassanoff; Porter Olsen
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BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions

D-Lib Magazine
2012-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher A. Lee; Alexandra Chassanoff; Kam Woods; Matthew Kirschenbaum; Porter Olsen
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Content Models for Enhancement and Sustainability: Creating a Generic Framework for Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities

Metadata and Semantic Research
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80054069249

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18650929

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Building a Trusted Distributed Archival Preservation with iRODS

IRODS
2010 | Conference poster
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Conceptualizing Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PoDRI) Using iRODS and Fedora

iRODS User Group Meeting 2010
2010 | Conference paper
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Alexandra Chassanoff

Policy-Driven repository interoperability: enabling integration patterns for iRODS and Fedora

iPRES
2010 | Conference paper
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Metadata Quality Evaluation in Institutional Repositories: A Survey of Current Practices

2009 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for International journal on digital libraries. (1)