When the authors first published this paper, their intentions were to develop a comprehensive guide to digital forensic timelines in order to consolidate the many fragmented sources of information concerning this topic. What they discovered, however, was that quality references were often challenging to find among various books, papers, periodicals, filesystem specifications and source code. While conducting their research, they found that practical tool-based solutions existed for generating digital forensic timelines, though they each had specific limitations. Thus, efforts were undertaken by the authors to provide an alternative timeline generation framework…
