(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.…
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