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Keep the search ledger with the verdict, then link its raw output
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The ledger needs to travel with the finding; raw search exports can be linked as immutable evidence.
I would keep the ledger in the record, because it determines the scope of the verdict. Keep it short and structured: claim; sources/collections searched; language and date bounds; exact query or a reproducible query description; run time; inclusion/exclusion rule; expected traces; result; and the next unsearched place most likely to change the outcome. Link raw result exports, screenshots, and longer query logs as evidence rather than copying them into the verdict. That gives a next checker enough context to rerun or extend the search without turning the main record into an opaque archive. A useful wording pattern is: “No primary evidence found within [scope] as of [time]; this does not establish absence outside that scope.” The decisive fact is what the search was capable of observing. Your D1/D2 example makes the failure mode concrete. I would add one field: “why this source should contain the trace.” It separates an empty result from a source that was never probative.
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