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baseURL: https://digitalevidencetoolkit.org
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title: The Digital Evidence Preservation Toolkit
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author: Basile Simon
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copyright: "Copyright © 2021-25, Basile Simon"
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description: An archiving and annotation tool demonstrating chain of custody in view of international prosecutions
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title: The Digital Evidence Preservation Toolkit
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subtitle: An archiving and annotation tool demonstrating chain of custody in view of international prosecutions
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# TODO
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# buttontext: Get started
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# - title: Features
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section1:
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title: Enter, the Toolkit
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subtitle: "At its core: **a ledger** with best-in-class cryptographic properties. **Immutable, replayable, durable.**"
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- title: One click to preserve
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text: Save content through a simple browser extension. More time spent researching.
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- title: Future-proof, authenticity proof
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text: Offline copies and immutable storage of their digitable signatures.
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- title: Browse & annotate
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text: As well as export of working copies. All access is logged in the ledger.
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- title: Lookup and prove
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text: Demonstrate proper chain of custody and reverse-lookup material against an archive.
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audience:
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title: Our audience
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subtitle: The Toolkit aims to cater to the needs of
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clients:
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- orgtype: Non-profits
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quote: Small teams in need of an inexpensive solution to effectively step up their archiving, with operational security in mind.
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- orgtype: Law firms
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quote: Teams requiring tailored integration with enterprise case-management software and bespoke customer support to offer the safest archiving to their clients.
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quote: Pluridisciplinary teams looking for an add-on to their workflow delivering effective proof of chain of custody throughout the proceedings.
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title: Notable features
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subtitle: well, benefits
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features:
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text: In addition to future-proof archives of webpages and screenshots, we're capturing some metadata about pages and asking users about their potential needs beyond the obvious (think Google Analytics tracking codes, DNS records, etc.)
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text: "This metadata is preserved and the unique signatures notarised in the immutable ledger we are using. This means that once written in the database, there is no lossy change possible aside from a complete deletion. Once again: we're addressing chain of custody from the moment of record only."
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icon: doc-sync
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text: "The centralised, Amazon Web Services-run ledger provides a hybrid method of trusted timestamping as per ANSI ASC X9.95 and ISO/IEC 18014: each insertion in and revision of the ledger has a timestamp, er, stamped on it by Amazon. It's a feature, not a bug – and a highly desirable one with that."
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title: Public roadmap
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subtitle: Coming soon to the Toolkit
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link: https://github.com/orgs/digitalevidencetoolkit/projects/3
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- label: Collaboration
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description: Support several researchers contributing to the same database
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description: Support load file workflows for case managements software e.g. CaseMap, Relativity, Nuix
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description: AWS infrastructure sets itself up in a reproducible manner
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title: News and blog
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description: Preserve, authenticate, and present digital evidence with advanced chain-of-custody tracking and metadata verification. Seamlessly integrate our tools into your CMS to ensure data integrity, compliance, and courtroom-ready results. Designed for legal professionals, archivists, and investigators, our solutions include secure archiving, evidence logging templates, and court-ready export features. Transform your workflows today!
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description: Preserve, authenticate, and present digital evidence with advanced chain-of-custody tracking and metadata verification. Seamlessly integrate our tools into your CMS to ensure data integrity, compliance, and courtroom-ready results. Designed for legal professionals, archivists, and investigators, our solutions include secure archiving, evidence logging templates, and court-ready export features. Transform your workflows today!
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### 〰️ Preserve 〰️ Authenticate 〰️ Annotate 〰️ Present 〰️
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_Redefining Digital Evidence Management with Advanced Custody and Verification._
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We integrate advanced chain-of-custody tracking and OSI verification workflows into your Content Management Systems (CMS). Our solutions empower legal professionals, archivists, and investigators with tools to ensure data integrity and compliance.
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**→ Our objective: courtroom-ready results.**
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- **Chain of Custody Tools**: Tamper-evident tracking of evidence through its lifecycle.
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- **Metadata Verification**: Automated analysis to validate authenticity and provenance.
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- **Secure Archiving**: Long-term encrypted and resilient storage.
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- **Evidence Logging Templates**: Immutable, time-stamped activity and audit trail.
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- **Court-Ready Export Features**: Prepare evidence for maximum admissibility chances.
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### **Powerful, Usable Tools That You Already Work with**
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**WordPress Plugin**: Make Wordpress a stronger evidence-management platform for your team. Include metadata analysis, Content Credentials presentation, chain of custody tracking, and court-ready exports.
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[→ Read more](./tools/wordpress-plugin)
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**Web Archiving Solution**: Securely capture and preserve web content with our easy-to-use browser extension. Automatically store web pages, metadata, and DNS records in a cryptographically verifiable, tamper-evident data structures. Ideal for legal discovery, journalistic investigations, and compliance needs.
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[→ Read more](./tools/webpage-archiving)
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**Customizable CMS Integrations**: Expand your workflows with integrations into popular CMS platforms like Strapi, Notion, and Uwazi.
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**Coming soon: Microsoft Relativity Integration**: Seamlessly integrate DEPT’s features into Relativity for evidence validation, metadata analysis, secure archiving, and chain-of-custody tracking.
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[→ Read more](./tools/microsoft-relativity)
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**Stay informed about evidence preservation and the Toolkit**
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<iframe src="https://digitalevidencetoolkit.substack.com/embed" width="100%" height="320" style="border:0px solid #EEE; background:white;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

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Basile Simon
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Located in Berlin, Basile supports the work of investigative journalism teams and works as a data journalist with expertise in data visualisation for the web techniques.<br/>
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He co-founded <a class="is-primary" href="https://airwars.org">Airwars</a> in 2014 and worked for the BBC, Reuters, and The Times and The Sunday Times.
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Thank you to everyone who <a class="is-primary" href="https://github.com/digitalevidencetoolkit/deptoolkit/graphs/contributors">contributed code</a> to the Toolkit.
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<p>Architecture and workflow graphics by <img src="https://laloma.info/wp-content/themes/laloma/images/custom/loma_projects.png" alt="Logo La Loma" width="24" height="24"> <a class="is-primary" href="https://laloma.info">La Loma</a>.</p>
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## About our funding
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The Toolkit started from a funded software grant, which enabled its main author, [Basile Simon](https://basilesimon.fr) to focus on these legal and technical issues he had encountered while at Airwars.
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As a fellow at Stanford Electrical Engineering, he is part of the [Starling Lab for Data Integrity](https://starlinglab.org) (Stanford/USC), and is a resident with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in the cross-NGO investigative group [Investigative Commons](https://investigative-commons.org/).
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Architecture and workflow graphics by [La Loma](https://laloma.info). Newsletter copywriting in 2022 by Patrick Harvey.
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The [original Toolkit prototype](/tools/webpage-archiving/) was built and released in August 2021 with the support of the Prototype Fund, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Open Knowledge Foundation, with an additional contribution from Amazon Web Services – all of which ended in 2021.
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![Prototype Fund and OKFN logos](https://prototypefund.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/logo-bmbf.svg) ![OKFN logo](https://prototypefund.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/logo-okfn.svg)

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