International Journal of Digital Evidence
Economic Crime Institute, Utica College · 2002
Access and status
Cost
Free
Free to read or download at source. No account, no purchase.
Status
Superseded or dormant
Superseded, replaced or no longer being updated. The archive may still be worth reading, but do not cite it as current practice.
What it is
A defunct early journal of the field. IJDE published from Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2002) to Volume 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2007) out of Utica College's Economic Crime Institute, and then stopped; the original utica.edu address now redirects away and there is no live journal site.
Who it is for, and when
Read it only for its historical core, which is still cited constantly: Carrier on abstraction layers, Casey on error and uncertainty, and Lyle on the NIST disk-imaging tool tests all appeared here. Go to the Internet Archive capture of the article index, which still resolves the issue-by-issue tables of contents and the article PDFs, and cite by volume, issue and season because IJDE never issued DOIs.
What it does not cover
It is dead — nothing after 2007, no DOIs, no publisher of record, and no stable URL other than the Internet Archive. Do not present it as a current journal, and do not rely on it for anything about modern devices, file systems or cloud services.
Go to the source
Open at web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)https://web.archive.org/web/20111001000000/http://www.utica.edu/academic/institutes/ecii/ijde/articles.cfm
Details
- Type
- Journal
- Written for
- AdvancedWorking examinerAdvanced, Working examiner
- Publisher
- Economic Crime Institute, Utica College
- Year
- 2002
- Topics
- research-publishing, foundations, error-rates, tool-testing
- Checked at source
Related entries
Brian Carrier's paper in IJDE 2003, Volume 1, Issue 4, which modelled forensic tools as stacks of abstraction layers — bytes to file system to file to application content — and pointed out that every layer translation introduces potential error that the tool's output hides. Note that the IJDE table of contents prints 'Tool' singular even though the paper is usually cited as 'Tools'.
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.
Garfinkel, Farrell, Roussev and Dinolt's DFRWS 2009 paper, published in Digital Investigation, arguing that digital forensics could not be a science without shared, redistributable test data, and introducing the corpora — including the real-data disk images and the govdocs document set — that the field went on to use.
Simson Garfinkel's 2010 paper in Digital Investigation arguing that the 'golden age' of digital forensics was ending and naming the forces that would end it: storage volume, device and format diversity, pervasive encryption, cloud storage and mobile platforms. It is one of the most cited papers in the field.
Eoghan Casey's paper in IJDE 2002, Volume 1, Issue 2, which took apart the then-common claim that digital evidence is exact and argued that error, uncertainty and data loss are intrinsic to it and must be stated. It proposed expressing a level of certainty in conclusions rather than asserting them flatly.