Artifact acquisition

Abstract#

Artifact acquisition can be done three ways :

• Uploaded and created manually via Artifact creation form
• Imported remotely via PiRogue experiment outcomes
• Grabbed with a browser extension called Colander Companion

Colander Companion#

Abstract#

Colander Companion is a browser extension that facilitates web content capture. The extension captures a static rendering of a webpage and transfers it to your personal Colander drop zone.

Installation#

Usage#

• Web content acquisition can be initiated at any point during a browsing session by clicking the Colander Companion extension icon.
• A pre-capture prompt allows the user to designate a case for association, but this step is not mandatory.
• To finalize the capture, press the Capture button.

Depending on the richness of the web content, the user has to wait the Colander Companion popup Captured !.

That’s it, the user can continue its browsing session.

Drop zone#

Abstract#

The drop zone (aka drop box) is a temporary storage where the user can easily and quickly upload any kind of file, regardless of its nature. All these files are potential evidences to be sorted and associated to a specific case.

Each Colander user has its own drop zone.

Evidences are uploaded into the drop zone using third party tools like Colander Companion.

When evidence acquisition is done, the user can then go back to its Colander account and convert each dropped files into proper Artifacts.

Drop zone location#

When connected to your Colander account:

1. Click on Colander header to go back to home page
2. Select Drops menu entry

Batch actions#

In its drop zone, the user can process evidences in batches. The user has the choice to convert them to artifact or to delete them.

If the user chooses not to keep certain uploads, it proceeds as follow:

1. Select one or more dropped files to delete
2. Click Delete action

If the user wants to keep files and associate them with a case, they’re converted to Artifacts as follows:

1. Select one or more dropped files to review
2. Click Review action

Review and convert drops to Artifact#

The review process is a wizard devided into few steps. Each step asks the user various Artifact properties to be applied to all selected reviewed drops. The user can cancel the reviewing process at any point in the wizard.

The case association is an important step, as it can’t be changed later. Take care if you review drops in batch.

In single drop review, the user can modify the Name of the destination Artifact. In batch mode, the Name field keeps its original value, but the user can change it later in Artifact management section. All other properties are applied to the whole batch.

The user can add attributes to Artifact at this step. All attribute values that are empty will be omitted.

Last, the user can provide a more detailed description. Clicking Convert will validate and launch the conversion to Artifact.

After the conversion, Artifacts can be found in each destination case under Artifact management section.