Digital Forensics XML and Standardization

Wondering what the future of Digital Forensics XML looks like? You can find recent work by NIST at http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/Downloads.htm (with a draft schema from based on the original spec for fileobjects at http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/DFXML/fileobject.xsd). You can also find ongoing work as part of CyBOX at MITRE at http://cybox.mitre.org/.

BitCurator depends on DFXML output when producing reports on private and personally identifying information, disk and file formats and organization. As part of our commitment to identifying and implementing ways in which DFXML can be used to enhance the description of and provenance records associated with archival born-digital materials, we’ve joined in a discussion with NIST, MITRE, and other interested parties on the future of standards-compliant DFXML.