(A Project of the EDRM Processing Guidelines Task Force)
Term Definition ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a plain text character encoding standard where seven- or eight-bit integers correspond to 128 or 256 characters and codes for electronic storage and communication. The eight-bit pairings are often…
Although sometimes invisible to the user, the processing stage of e-discovery involves a complicated number of steps as data moves from preservation and collection to analysis and review. Processing software can make the workflow easier to master and automate most…
Reporting is a critical part of e-discovery processing. From the beginning, the software should track the files received from collection and the actions taken on those files. An initial container file, for example, should be linked to the identity of…
The goal of e-discovery processing is to convert selected files, images, text and metadata into a format appropriate for loading into litigation support software by delivering one or more load files, along with the associated native, image and text files…
Once files have been extracted, analyzed and filtered, the next step is content extraction. Processing software should extract text from emails, office documents and other file types, often as text files, and move them forward for indexing and search later.…
Depending on the nature of the matter, the scope of the collection can vary greatly from narrow and targeted to broad and overly inclusive. As a result, processing software must filter files based on type, date range or other operator…
Ingestion is the first step in data processing. A processing system should have the ability to ingest a variety of ESI types such as emails, office documents (word processing, spreadsheets and slides), instant messages, social media, and audio and video…
Download the complete paper: EDRM Guidelines for E-Discovery Processing v3CC4 E-discovery[1] involves the exchange, analysis and review of electronic files, email and other information stored on a computing device.[2] Over the past two decades, it has become a common part…
Editors and Drafting Team Leaders John Tredennick Merlin Search Technologies, Inc. JT@Merlin.Tech Craig Ball University of Texas School of LawTulane University School of Lawcraig@ball.net Assistant Editor Tammy Dahl, ACP, CEDS Mesch Clark Rothschild tdahl@mcrazlaw.com Drafting Team Christopher Cella…