Interim Workshop on Electronic Evidence Standard Package Application with Digital Forensic and Legal Experts

This report is the second deliverable under Work Package 3 'Matching EVIDENCE into e-CODEX and Linking to Other EU Member States' and as its title indicates, it reports on the interim workshop with digital forensic and legal experts on the Evidence Exchange Standard Package (EESP) Application, held in November 2018 in The Hague, the Netherlands. This work is prepared under Task 3.2 'Development of a workflow management application for managing, importing and exporting evidence standard packages'. More specifically, this report begins with a description of the evidence exchange workflow and the demonstration scenario; it continues with a brief specification of the representation language, which is the backbone of the work prepared by Task 3.2; the section that follows provides some details on the design and development of the EESP application, which is the main output of this task; finally the report provides the workshop details and the received feedback by the attending experts. This workshop aimed at: - Involving people in a debate (and receiving feedback) on the EVIDENCE2e- CODEX application, called EESP, which supports the UCO/CASE language and prepares the Evidence Package for its transfer. In the demonstration scenario we have designed for the workshop the EESP application will be at the disposal of the Forensic Labs involved in an investigation and of the Competent Authorities (CA) of Member States. - Presenting activities of other closely related project (e-Evidence Digital Exchange System, led by the EC, and EXEC led by Austrian Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice) that work together to achieve a common goal: exchange evidence among competent authorities in the EU Member States. The aim in this case was to engage discussions for finding solutions in common issues and for integrating - where possible- of systems or tools. Participants of this workshop were various stakeholders and experts from digital forensics and legal domains as well as IT experts that deal with digital evidence on a daily basis. Among the guests there were also two well-known software companies, which develop forensics tools, that had showed interest in adopting this standard to produce the output of their tools fully complied with the UCO/CASE language formalism.