ICIJ Datashare alternatives
6 tools in the catalogue cover the same ground as ICIJ Datashare and can replace it depending on the need. Each one is reachable, re-checked daily, and listed with its pricing.
- Timeline JS3freeOpen-source JavaScript timeline tool by Knight Lab that creates interactive multimedia timelines from Google Sheets or JSON data.
- Exterro FTKpaidCommercial forensic suite used in judicial work, with a free imager for creating court-admissible disk copies without altering the original.
- Perma.ccfreemiumHarvard-run permanent archiving service producing citable links that survive link rot.
- BrowserlingfreemiumOpens a site in a disposable remote browser. Lets you view a suspicious page without exposing your own machine or address.
- HunchlypaidBrowser extension silently capturing every visited page into a timestamped, hash-verified case file.
- The Sleuth KitfreeOpen-source forensic toolkit for disk images and file systems. Recovers deleted files and rebuilds a timeline of activity, with Autopsy as its interface.
ICIJ Datashare
Documentation / Evidence
Also written ICIJDatashare
Document analysis platform built by the ICIJ for the Panama Papers. Runs locally, indexes large leaked or obtained document sets, performs OCR and extracts named entities so an investigator can search across thousands of files.
RECOMMENDED USE
Searching and cross-referencing a large set of documents obtained during an investigation
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Scribd
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