Welcome to the documentation of the Digital Evidence Preservation Toolkit, a one-click tool to archive and annotate webpages while demonstrating chain of custody throughout.
The DEPToolkit is a proof-of-concept software for researchers and small teams sifting through online material.
With only one click of the mouse, the material will be archived in a framework demonstrating chain of custody and stored durably. Once included in the growing database, users will be able to go back to search through and annotate the material, and to export working copies of said material for publication and dissemination.
A database built thusly can be handed to a prosecutor ten years down the line, and they will be able to say with mathematical certainty: “the material in this archive is identical and contemporary to the one saved at the time, ten years ago.”
Read more about the projet at digitalevidencetoolkit.org.
Jump to Getting started for a short guide to running the Toolkit on your machine.
Jump to the Technical journal for some ramblings about how the code is structured.
You can also read how we think we fare in comparison to the principles of the Berkeley Protocol.
The Toolkit is an open source and knowledge project which seeks contributions from the community. Jump to How you can help and contribute if that takes your fancy.
The original version of the Toolkit was built and released in August 2021 with the support of Prototype Fund, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Open Knowledge Foundation, with an additional contribution from Amazon Web Services.
<aside> 💡 We are open to additional funding if it aligns with our roadmap objectives
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<aside> 🙏 If this is something you have expertise with and are happy to help, do reach out at [email protected]
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