DFRWS Conference Proceedings
Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) · 2001
Access and status
Cost
Partly free
Part of it is free and part is not. The entry says which part; read that before you plan around it.
Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
The peer-reviewed paper track of the DFRWS conferences, which have run since the first workshop in 2001 and now cover three regions — DFRWS USA, DFRWS EU (rebranding as the Digital Forensics Conference Europe) and DFRWS APAC. DFRWS's own submission rules confirm accepted research papers are published as special issues of Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation.
Who it is for, and when
This is the single best free source of current digital forensics research, because DFRWS hosts the full published PDF of each accepted paper on dfrws.org even though the journal version sits behind Elsevier's paywall. Go here first when you have a citation to an FSI: Digital Investigation paper from a DFRWS special issue and no library subscription. The site also carries presentation and demonstration material and past forensic challenges, which are useful for method background that never made it into a journal.
What it does not cover
Only the paper track is archived this way — presentation and demonstration proposals are not part of the printed proceedings, and DFRWS explicitly rejects general data-analysis work that does not address a forensic question. It is not a substitute for a subscription if you need FSI: Digital Investigation papers that did not come out of a DFRWS special issue.
Go to the source
Open at dfrws.org (opens in a new tab)https://dfrws.org/presentation/
Details
- Type
- Journal
- Written for
- AdvancedWorking examinerAdvanced, Working examiner
- Publisher
- Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS)
- Year
- 2001
- Topics
- research-publishing, open-access, community, validation
- Checked at source
Related entries
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The report from the first Digital Forensic Research Workshop, held in 2001, which set out a research agenda and a shared vocabulary for a field that at that point had neither. It is the document that proposed the examination process framework and the term 'digital forensic science', and it is conventionally cited as Palmer (2001); DFRWS's own page for it names no individual author.
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