1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Acknowledgements

      5  Introduction: Establishment of the Roadmap I.1. Preamble I.2. The call of digital society for new forms of traceability I.3. Enthusiasm for the place of the trace in crime series I.4. The investigation, an approach also used in the social sciences I.5. Investigations and indices, two related concepts I.6. Distinguishing between “trace anthropocentrée” and “trace ontologique” I.7. From “trace anthropocentrée” to the signe-trace I.8. Need for agreement on terminology I.9. Objective of The Trace Odyssey: following the trace interpreted as a consequence I.10. Confronting points of view I.11. Social construction in the face of confronting points of view I.12. Axioms underpinning The Trace Odyssey project I.13. The corps-trace at the heart of the relationship between the individual and the “milieu” I.14. Permanent evolution of the corps-trace I.15. Homme-trace, a universal anthropological paradigm I.16. Towards a progressive figuration of the “ecosystem-trace” apparatus I.17. Conclusion: The Trace Odyssey 1, roadmap I.18. Bibliography

      6  1 Beyond the Triviality of the Trace 1.1. Preamble 1.2. Contact traces 1.3. Humans, readers of traces bearing witness to the passage of animals 1.4. Technology at the service of deferred interpretation 1.5. Techne as a trace of the evolution of “Homme-Trace” 1.6. Trace visibility and invisibility 1.7. Digital application 1.8. Interaction between milieu³⁷, traces from the body and “corps-trace”³⁸ 1.9. Conclusion: beyond the natural character of the trace 1.10. Bibliography

      7  2 Gateway to the Digital World 2.1. Preamble 2.2. Role of attention 2.3. Identifying the trace 2.4. Specificity of the digital trace 2.5. Digital universe, a space designed by humans 2.6. Rules of a digital society 2.7. Capta before data 2.8. Transforming capta into data 2.9. Reading data 2.10. Risks associated with uncoupling and interpretation 2.11. Conclusion: mute data and interpretative risks 2.12. Bibliography

      8  3 The Lettrure from Yesterday to Today 3.1. Preamble 3.2. From reading the heavens to the power of the cartographer 3.3. Key role of the dominants interprétatifs 3.4. Algorithms behind the screen⁶ 3.5. Humans behind the algorithm 3.6. Individuation of meaning 3.7. Considering writing as a trace of an absence 3.8. Writing at the expense of the lettrure 3.9. Traduttore, traditore¹⁶ 3.10. Example of a chaining of conséquences-traces 3.11. Mechanisms of the ecosystem of electronic traces and digital humanities 3.12. Conclusion: role of humans in the cogs of the digital²¹ ecosystem 3.13. Bibliography

      9  4 Understanding Traces with Forensic Science 4.1. Preamble 4.2. Self-learning machines and open-source software 4.3. Trace and forensic science 4.4. Role of circumstances in the indexing of meaning 4.5. Trace collection and indexing of meaning 4.6. Collected traces and classification inventory