Monday, November 14, 2011

Lost Metadata



http://ow.ly/7sH0M

A blog post by Albert Barsocchini, Esq. posted on the EDD Update website.

The article states, "One of the industries' little secrets is omitting or reducing — either intentionally or unintentionally — the amount of meta data fields that will be ingested for processing. The less metadata ingested, the less time it takes to process, index and view the electronically stored information.

Currently, there are more than 80,000 identified reasonably accessible metadata fields available for capture. Clearly, most of those fields are irrelevant to ediscovery, but it is important to be aware of what is reasonably accessible and why those fields are excluded. Although the number of known metadata fields is surprisingly large, it is growing as new file types are added to the mix."

The article suggests that if certain metadata fields are not being captured, the attorneys involved need to discuss this with their service providers and make sure they are aware of what is not being tracked.


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