Talk:Production Node

From EDRM

At Legal Tech in NY this year, George mentioned pushing for an XML schema for productions between parties in a litigation. I like the break down on this node of Paper/Quasi-Paper/Quasi-Native/Native production types. I’d love to see technical specs created for each that could be used as a baseline for negotiating in what format data will be exchanged between parties. To begin the standard would be just fields in a delimited file. Then the fields can be used as the basis for applying the XML tags. That way if either party can not accept XML (yet) the field list can be used as a basis to build a load file for Concordance, Summation, Introspect…etc.

For example:

Quasi-Paper with Metadata and text

Field Name|Specification|Description_E-Mail|Description_E-Files_Attachments|Example BegDoc|Unique_ID|Document ID number associated with the first page of an email|Document ID number associated with the first page of a document|ABC00001 SentOn_Date|NA|The date a document was sent (GMT)|NA|2005/01/25

XML would allow for more granularity so you might break down the components more per field like so.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> - - <Production> - <BegDoc>

 <ALPHAPREFIX>ABC</ALPHAPREFIX> 
 <NUMERICPREFIX>00001</NUMERICPREFIX> 
 </BegDoc>

- <SentOn_Date>

 <YEAR>2005</YEAR> 
 <NUMERICMONTH>01</NUMERICMONTH> 
 <ALPHAMONTH>JANUARY</ALPHAMONTH>
 <NUMERICDAY>25</NUMERICDAY>
 <ALPHADAY>TUESDAY</ALPHADAY>
 </SentOn_Date>

Thoughts?

Brian Stempel bstempel@kirkland.com