Kevin F. Brady, Partner, Connolly Bove Paul W. Grimm, U.S. Magistrate Judge, (Maryland) Kevin Brady and Judge Paul Grimm provide a flowchart of the admissibility of electronic evidence. They explain when evidence is relevant, authentic, hearsay, and the exceptions that apply, as well as practice tips. Download the full article below.

ccHost is an open source (GPL licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. It is the codebase used by ccMixter and other sites.

Besides its focus on sharing content, ccHost differentiates itself from other multi-media hosting programs by emphasizing the reuse (a.k.a. remixing) of content between artists, not only between artists on any given installation of ccHost, but between all installations across the web and any web site that implements the Creative Commons Sample Pool API, including non-ccHost sites such as the freesound project.

WERA (WEb ARchive Access) is an archive viewer application that gives an Internet Archive Wayback Machine-like access to web archive collections as well as the possibility to do full text search and easy navigation between different versions of a web page.

From the website:

About MetaArchive: Collaboratively preserving our digital heritage

The MetaArchive Cooperative provides low-cost, high-impact preservation services to help ensure the long-term accessibility of the digital assets of universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.

Why we need digital preservation. Today, more than 93% of the world’s information is produced as digital files, not print documents. How do we care for these new digital resources—from government websites to corporate emails and from scanned images to born-digital recordings? As evidenced by such catastrophic events as blackouts, fires, and hurricanes, as well as basic hardware and software failures, we need to act now to begin providing long-term digital preservation services for our digital history or we risk losing them altogether.

What we do. The MetaArchive Cooperative is building Trusted Digital Repositories to provide long-term care for digital materials. The Cooperative was formed in 2004 out of our increasing concern that the digital items that define our culture and history might be forever lost due to natural disaster, human error, or sheer neglect. The Cooperative functions as a community initiative. Its collaborative networks are comprised of libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions that seek to cooperatively preserve their digital materials, not by outsourcing to other organizations, but by actively participating in the preservation of their own content.

How we do it. To preserve digital assets, the MetaArchive Cooperative uses a systemic, forward-looking technological approach called distributed digital preservation. Our member institutions identify collections that they want to preserve. These collections are then ingested by our system and are copied, distributed and stored on secure file servers in multiple locations. These servers do not merely back up the materials, but rather provide a dynamic means of constantly checking each file and providing repairs whenever necessary. 

From webcitation.org:

WebCite® is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL.

A WebCite® reference is an archived webcitation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future), authors of scholarly works will link to the archived WebCite® copy on webcitation.org.

WERA (Web ARchive Access) is a freely available solution for searching and navigating archived web document collections. It works like the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine except it also allows for full-text search of the web archive. WERA is a php application based on pieces from -- and now, with Nutchwax replaces -- NwaToolset. The WERA component includes an arcretriever webapp for the fetching of records from directories of Internet Archive ARC files. See the WERA Manual for more on how WERA works, requirements, and installation. For a demo of WERA+nutchwax, see nwa.nb.no/wera. WERA development has been sponsored by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).

The national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future generations and therefore decided to form a consortium called the International Internet Preservation Consortium.

The goals of the consortium are:

• To enable the collection of a rich body of Internet content from around the world to be preserved in a way that it can be archived, secured and accessed over time.
• To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives.
• To encourage and support national libraries everywhere to address Internet archiving and preservation.