Autopsy Ontology: Supporting Semantics-Based Automated Knowledge Discovery for Digital Forensic Artifacts

Recognizing a lack of formal knowledge organization systems for digital forensic artifacts, this paper proposes the Autopsy Ontology , which, for the first time, defines the de facto standard Autopsy tool’s terminology in OWL. This ontology was designed to be used for automated reasoning over, and advanced querying of, digital forensic artifacts analyzed in Autopsy, and generating semantic knowledge graphs of digital forensic datasets in resource description framework.