document

Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(a) defines a document as including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, phonorecords, and other data compilations. In the electronic discovery world, a document also refers to a collection of pages representing an electronic file. E-mails, attachments, databases, word documents, spreadsheets, and graphic files are all examples of electronic documents.

Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(a) defines a document as "including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, phone records, and other data compilations." In the electronic discovery world, a document also refers to a collection of pages representing an electronic file. E-mails, attachments, databases, word documents, spreadsheets, and graphic files are all examples of electronic documents.

A discrete unit of content and its associated metadata. See also: file

A Notes entry that users create by using a form on the Create menu. Documents consist of fields, text, numbers, graphics, and so on.

Recorded information or object which can be treated as a unit

Recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics. Frequently used interchangeably with record. See also item, records.

A piece of content that is normalized with respect to the enterprise search platform's document structure, as opposed to the content itself.