Legal Data

Endangered

Completed Investigations Based on Open Source Intelligence Sources

Open source social media and web content that has been used to support the conclusions of crowd-sourced investigation and fact-checking in political or military conflict.

Endangered

Contractual Documents and Related Records

Documents, correspondence and other records created in the course of contractual dealings between individuals and agencies, especially where the subjects are of long duration and may be subject to legal scrutiny at undefined points in the distant future.

Critically Endangered

Digital Archives from Public Enquiries and Commissions

Data from public enquiries and reconciliation commissions which can be traumatic, politically uncomfortable and contested, typically comes in many different forms and formats. Data protection issues and cultural sensitivities only amplify the challenge to preservations.

Critically Endangered

Digital Evidence and Records of Investigation Prior to Court

Digital materials assessed by police and other authorities in the course of investigation and retained as evidence of due process such as case files and correspondence, including materials not submitted to court.

Critically Endangered

Evidence in Court

Digital materials presented in court as evidence or documents such as rulings and proceedings generated through legal proceedings

Practically Extinct

Non-standard Public Records

Records created in the course of public administration and subject to public records legislation but created on unofficial channels and platforms and therefore subject to unlawful destruction whether by accident or design.

Practically Extinct

Older Open Source Intelligence Sources

Older open source intelligence produced, collected and analysed from publicly available social media and web content with the purpose of answering a specific intelligence question and that supports crowd-sourced investigation and fact-checking to verify or refute claims of state agencies and rebel groups in the context of historic political or military conflict.

Critically Endangered

Open Source Intelligence Sources of Current Conflicts

Open source intelligence produced, collected and analysed from publicly, openly available social media and web content with the purpose of answering a specific intelligence question and that supports crowd-sourced investigation and fact-checking to verify or refute claims of state agencies and rebel groups in the context of current political or military conflict.

Endangered

Proceedings in Court

Digital materials generated through legal proceedings in court.