What is a Document? Evidentiary Challenges in the Digital Age

该项目计划调查现代澳大利亚诉讼中书证性质和作用的变化。数字技术推动的转型对证据法中的传统区分提出了挑战。该项目计划利用案例研究、与法院官员和法律的专业人员的访谈以及实地观察，探索信息科学和人文学科领域发展起来的方法，以审查其法律潜力，因为在这些领域，对数字时代物质文化的理解已经迅速发展。预计该项目将为证据法的政策制定提供信息，使其在数字时代的信息和文化经济中保持相关性。

This project plans to investigate the changing nature and role of documentary evidence in modern Australian litigation. The transformation driven by digital technologies presents challenges to traditional distinctions in the law of evidence. Using case studies, interviews with court officials and legal professionals and observational fieldwork, the project plans to explore methods developed in the fields of information science and the humanities, where understandings of material cultural in the digital age have advanced rapidly, to examine their potential for law. The project is expected to inform policy development in evidence law so that it remains relevant in the information and cultural economies of the digital age.