Information Exchange

To be fair all round - I've just received my login to the ForensicWiki.

At a first glance, it seems to be a detailed resource and that the maintainers are interested in expanding - judging by the list of "Suggested Topics".

New pages seem to come, on average, at a rate of about 2 a month … But of course these are _new_ pages and don't reflect the edits and additions to existing pages. The edit data is a little harder to extract, but changes have been made in the last 30 days to a couple of pages at least …

dba599 and I have been looking at creating a couple of examples of the reporting form, and also a clean methodology, based both on the one that dba599 sent to me, and also the guidance on keydet89's blog.

If anyone has anything to add regarding testing methodology, I would be glad of hearing it.

We hope to iron out a lot of the issues in this process, but the intention is then to post both examples and methodology here for public review before taking them to a more secure location in the long term.

Thanks.

Azrael

Azrael

I processed your account today - unfortunately I have been away at court for the last two weeks on a trial that dragged on longer than expected and travelling to and from the South East each day meant that long days ensured that I had little time to process wiki registrations. Had I known in advanced of my shecdule then I may have had time to set up an alternate registration scheme - but I didn't

I do think that I am pretty well known (not meant to sound arrogant) as is Craig Wilson the other 'mod' of the board and an email to either of us if you had need of urgent access would have probably done the trick.

I hear what you say about the 'THIS NEEDS CHANGING" bit, but I would like to point out that it is in a box marked "Getting Access" and as the potential users of this system are high tech investigators I sort of though that they would be able to work that one out ) i.e. click on the little envelope icon next to where it says "send an email to" to send an email )

Paul,

Thank you -)

I'm more than happy to apologise in public for being an impatient pain in the neck … I hope that your trial went well. And getting into the South East is a nightmare, you have my sympathy on that count.

With regard to people being able to figure it out, I agree, that once there it if they can't do it, perhaps another career beckons … It was the scrolling down to find it that seemed to have a few people stumped - any chance of moving it up into the main body ? 😉

Now that you are back, and have had a chance to read the thread, what are your thoughts regarding using the ForensicWiki as the repository for this kind of structured data ?

Kind Regards,

Azrael

Having read this thread I think the Wiki concept lends itself ideally to this sort of collaboration.

Each of the sections mentioned in the first post can be simple set up (either one or all of them) by using the Wiki's heading system and a menu will be insterted at the top of the page linking to each area.

Although a template could be used it may prove a bit unweildy when things like multiple verification tools are used. No harm in experimenting though.

The neat thing about a wiki of course is that the base concept (original post) can be built upon and corrected by subsequent users (with a full audit history).

Azael - why don't you start something off

It was the scrolling down to find it that seemed to have a few people stumped

Oh dear !!! )

Having read this thread I think the Wiki concept lends itself ideally to this sort of collaboration.

Each of the sections mentioned in the first post can be simple set up (either one or all of them) by using the Wiki's heading system and a menu will be insterted at the top of the page linking to each area.

Although a template could be used it may prove a bit unweildy when things like multiple verification tools are used. No harm in experimenting though.

The neat thing about a wiki of course is that the base concept (original post) can be built upon and corrected by subsequent users (with a full audit history).

Azael - why don't you start something off

I see what you mean about the heading system, and how it works - that's pretty neat actually …

I've entered a suggested reporting format, and a sample fictional report at

http//www.forensicwiki.com/index.php?title=Experimental_Results_Reporting

and

http//www.forensicwiki.com/index.php?title=sample_report

respectively. It isn't hugely different to the one listed above, tidied up a little and with the addition of reviewer fields.

Please would people review ?

Thanks.

Azrael

Rather than link to reports at the base of the page you created - have a look at the forensicwiki categorisation system

see
http//www.forensicwiki.com/index.php?title=Little_Endian&action=edit

for an example of a page that is in two separate categories

categories should be used with a little care as too many of them will make the system unwieldy

Paul

Rather than link to reports at the base of the page you created - have a look at the forensicwiki categorisation system

see
http//www.forensicwiki.com/index.php?title=Little_Endian&action=edit

for an example of a page that is in two separate categories

categories should be used with a little care as too many of them will make the system unwieldy

Ah ha ! Ok. I've created a category for "experimental reports" and filed both pages under it …

I don't think that it fitted into any of the others, and I think that it is a broad enough clasification to cover all the possible pages that might spawn from it -)

Thanks.

How do you sign up for this wiki?

www.forensicwiki.com