Digital Evidence Database
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Vacuuming Image Metadata from the Wayback Machine
- Institution
Bellingcat
- Language
English
- Publication date
- 2016-12-06
- Reference link
- https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2016/12/06/vacuuming-image-metadata-wayback-machine/
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- To provide assistance on retrieving image metadata on the Wayback Machine.
- Description
- The guide presents advice on how to pull down all images for a particular URL on the Wayback Machine, extract any EXIF data and then output all of the information into a spreadsheet ahead of review. It includes the prerequisites and the coding instructions for the process.
- Target group
- Open source researchers and investigators
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Verification Handbook for Disinformation and Media Manipulation
- Institution
European Journalism Centre (EJC)
- Language
English
- Reference link
- https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-3
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- It aims to equip journalists with the knowledge to investigate social media accounts, bots, private messaging apps, information operations, deep fakes, as well as other forms of misinformation and media manipulation
- Description
- This guideincludes information on misinformation and media manipulation, describing the lifecycle of media manipulation, and focused on investigating actors and content. It describes various investigating social media accounts, techniques on spotting bots, cyborgs, and inauthentic activity. The guide also offers further tips on monitoring for fakes and information operations during breaking news. Further, and building on the previous versions, the guide offers guidelines on verifying and questioning images. Further chapters include: analyzing ads on social networks, tracking actors across platforms, network analysis and attribution. The guide is presented in a practical manner, focusing primarily on case studies.
- Target group
- Journalists, aid providers, citizen reporter, relief responder, volunteer, journalism school student, emergency communication specialist, academics, social media investigators
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Verification Handbook: A guide to Online Search and Research Techniques for Using UGC and Open Source Information in Investigation
- Institution
European Journalism Centre (EJC)
- Language
English
- Reference link
- http://verificationhandbook.com/book2/
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- The document seeks to provide step-by-step guidance to apply research, fact-checking, and data journalism techniques.
- Description
- The guide describes the opportunities for using open source information and user-generated content in investigative work; using online research methods to investigate the who, where and when of a person, identifies research tools and investigative techniques, and verifying data quality, chapter on using UGC in human rights and war crimes investigations, and applying ethical principles to digital age investigation. The guide also contains useful case studies.
- Target group
- Journalists, aid providers, citizen reporter, relief responder, volunteer, journalism school student, emergency communication specialist, academics, social media investigators
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Verification Handbook: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing for Emergency Coverage
- Institution
European Journalism Centre (EJC)
- Language
English
- Reference link
- http://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.pdf
- Executive summary
- Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.
- Purpose
- The document seeks to provide actionable advice to facilitate disaster preparedness in newsrooms, and best practices for how to verify and use information, photos and videos provided by the crowd.
- Description
- The guidelines provide information on verification fundamentals (using social media as a police scanner), verification of user-generated content, verification of images and videos, and and guides as to how to prepare for disaster coverage and creating verification process and checklists. In the annex, the guide contains a field guide to enhancing the evidentiary value of video for human rights.
- Target group
- Journalists, aid providers, citizen reporter, relief responder, volunteer, journalism school student, emergency communication specialist, academics, social media investigators
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Verification Handbook: An Ultimate Guideline on Digital Age Sourcing for Emergency Coverage
- Institution
European Journalism Centre (EJC)
- Language
English
- Reference link
- http://verificationhandbook.com/downloads/verification.handbook.pdf
- Executive summary
- Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.
- Purpose
- The document seeks to provide actionable advice to facilitate disaster preparedness in newsrooms, and best practices for how to verify and use information, photos and videos provided by the crowd.
- Description
- The guidelines provide information on verification fundamentals (using social media as a police scanner), verification of user-generated content, verification of images and videos, and and guides as to how to prepare for disaster coverage and creating verification process and checklists. In the annex, the guide contains a field guide to enhancing the evidentiary value of video for human rights.
- Target group
- Journalists, aid providers, citizen reporter, relief responder, volunteer, journalism school student, emergency communication specialist, academics, social media investigators
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Verification and Geolocation Tricks and Tips with Google Earth
- Institution
Bellingcat
- Language
English
- Publication date
- 2014-07-09
- Reference link
- https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2014/07/09/verification-and-geolocation-tricks-and-tips-with-google-earth/
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- To provide assistance in using Google Earth for verification and geolocation.
- Description
- The documents presents useful tricks and tips to use Google Earth for verification and geolocation purposes. It addresses historical imagery, 3D terrains and landmarks.
- Target group
- Open source researchers and investigators
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Video Evidence. A law enforcement guide to resources and best practices
- Institution
The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative’s (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC)
- Language
English
- Publication date
- 2014-03-01
- Reference link
- https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=751596
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- "The purpose of this resource is to provide answers to straightforward common questions that law enforcement officers, or the agencies they represent, may have regarding properly securing, collecting, storing, and analyzing video by directing them to valuable tools and resources from experts in the field."
- Description
- This guide provides useful summary of video related guidelines and manuals. It also expands on its usage and provides an overview of useful trainings and certificates.
- Target group
- Law enforcement officers and agencies
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Video as Evidece, Field Guide
- Institution
Witness
- Language
English
- Publication date
- 2016-03-29
- Reference link
- https://vae.witness.org/video-as-evidence-field-guide/
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- "The goal of the Field Guide is to provide methods for filmers use videos to expose abuse and bring about justice. This resource helps ensure that more cameras in more hands can lead to more exposure and greater justice."
- Description
- The Field Guide provides information on the basic legal principles and processes for the interaction between law and video. It also provides basic practices and tips for capturing video with enhanced evidentiary value. Regarding filming for evidentiary purposes, it gives assistance on filming, organizing and managing your videos for evidentiary purposes. It addresses practices on sharing and using eyewitness video in Human Rights reporting and advocacy: Lastly, it includes techniques for verifying video content and guidelines for using ethically using eyewitness video.
- Target group
- first responders, field workers, journalists, activists, community reporters, and human rights investigators
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Who to Trust, Google or the Russian MoD? A Guide to Verifying Google Earth Satellite Image Dates
- Institution
Bellingcat
- Language
English
- Publication date
- 2015-06-05
- Reference link
- https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2015/06/05/google-earth-image-verification/
- Purpose
- To provide assistance in the verification of Google Earth satellite image dates
- Description
- The guide provides assistance on the verification of Google Earth satellite image dates. For this purpose, it uses the findings of Bellingcat regarding the 21 July Russian MoD satellite images after the 17 July downing of the MH17.
- Target group
- Open source researchers and investigators
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Автоматический поиск связанных между собой сайтов по кодам отслеживания
- Institution
Bellingcat
- Language
Russian
- Publication date
- 2017-08-24
- Reference link
- https://ru.bellingcat.com/materialy/putevoditeli/2017/08/24/automatically-finding-codes/
- Executive summary
- n/a
- Purpose
- To provide advice on how to discover website connections through tracking codes.
- Description
- The guide explores how to automatically discover links between websites through tracking codes using some handcrafted Python.
- Target group
- Open source researchers and investigators
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