Digital history and born-digital archives: the importance of forensic methods

Digital Archives and Preservation

DEFINITION Preservation is the set of processes that maintain the authenticity, integrity, and chain of custody of records for long periods of time. Authenticity is defined as the management of provenance information about the creation of the record. Integrity is defined as the ability to create an authentic copy. Chain of custody tracks all processing done to the record, including migration to...

Digital Forensic

Semantic Digital Archives Preface

Current digital preservation is strongly biased towards data objects: digital files of document-style objects, or encapsulated and largely self-contained objects. To provide authenticity and provenance information, comprehensive metadata models are deployed to document information on an object’s context. Yet, we claim that simply documenting an objects context may not be sufficient to ensure pr...

Digital Video Archives

In this paper we discuss the role that a video data base may play in a digital video archive and some of the challenges that video data bases are facing Prob lems related to large scale storage and delivery of video data are brie y discussed while a modelling and query ing aspecs are treated more thoroughly We propose a generic data model that captures video data struc tures and that supports t...

Digital Forensic Analysis of Internet History Using Principal Component Analysis

-A modern Digital Forensic examination, even on a small-scale home computer typically involves searching large-size hard disk drive storage, a variety of host and web-based applications which may or may not be known to the investigator, and a proliferation of web-based Internet history artefacts that may be highly significant to showing the motivation of a suspect. Faster keyword searching and ...