E-Discovery terms starting with E

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e-Discovery The collection, preparation, review and production of electronic documents in litigation discovery.
e-Discovery Amendments or Electronic Discovery Amendments Amendments to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which became effective on December 1, 2006.
e-mail Electronic mail or computer-based mail
E-mail Message Store. A top most e-mail message store is the location in which an e-mail system stores its data.
ECM Enterprise content management.
EDD (Electronic Data Discovery) The process of gathering, reviewing and producing of documents in electronic format.
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Eliminating forms altogether by encoding the data as close as possible to the point of the transaction; automated business information exchange.
EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) A system to electronically manage documents during all life cycles. See Electronic Document Management.
EGA (Extended Graphics Adapter) See VGA.
EIA Electronic Industries Association EIM
EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) One of the standard buses used for PCs.
Electronic Discovery The process of collecting (also called harvesting), preparing, reviewing, and producing electronic documents in the context of the legal process These…
Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Glossary The EDRM Glossary for electronic discovery is a working compilation of key terms gathered from member organizations of the EDRM, including RenewData, and…
Electronic Document Management For paper documents, involves imaging, indexing/coding and archiving of scanned documents/images, and thereafter electronically managing them during all…
Electronic Evidence According to Black's law dictionary, evidence is 'any species of proof, or probative matter, legally presented at the trial of an issue, by the act of…
Electronic File Processing Generally includes extraction of metadata from files, identification of duplicates/de-duplication and rendering of data into delimited format.
Electronic Image An electronic or digital picture of a document (e.g. TIFF, PDF, etc.).
Electronic Image Management (EIM) A term coined to indicate the creation, management and structure of electronic images (TIF, PDF, GIF, JPG, etc.) within an organization.
Electronic Mail (Email) Electronic communication generally in the form of text messages.
Electronic Mail Message Commonly referred to as e-mail, an electronic mail message is a document created or received via an electronic mail system, including brief notes, formal…
Electronic Record Information recorded in a form that requires a computer or other machine to process it and that otherwise satisfies the definition of a record.
Electronic Search In the context of e-Discovery, the ability to access all litigation documents in searchable electronic form and use selected keywords to find applicable…
Electrostatic Printing Paper is exposed to electron charge. Toner sticks to the charged pixels.
Em In any print, font or size is equal to the width of the letter M in that font and size.
Email the whole of an electronic document containing the message envelope and message content (attachments, etc.).
Email address An electronic mail address. Internet email addresses follow the formula user- ID@domain-name; other email protocols may use different address formats.
Email Message Store A top most e-mail message store is the location in which an e-mail system stores its data.
Email Metadata Data stored in the email about the email. Often this data is not even viewable in the email client application used to create the email.
Email String A series of emails linked together by email responses or forwards. The series of email messages created through multiple responses and answers to an…
Encryption A procedure that renders the contents of a message or file unintelligible to anyone not authorized to read it.
encryption key A data value that is used to encrypt and decrypt data. The number of bits in the encryption key is a rough measure of the encryption strength; generally…
End Document Number or End Doc# The last single page image of a document.
Endorser A small printer in a scanner that adds a document-control number or other endorsement to each scanned sheet.
Enhanced Titles A meaningful/descriptive title for a document. The opposite of Verbatim Titles.
Enterprise Architecture Framework for how software, computing, storage and networking systems should integrate and operate to meet the changing needs across an entire business
Enterprise User Information (EUI) Email, including attachments, and user files.
EOF (End of File) A distinctive code which uniquely marks the end of a data file.
ePaper An electronic version of a document, usually in a PDF or TIFF file format.
EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) Also known as Fast Mode Parallel Port. A new, industry standard parallel port, having higher transfer times competitive with SCSI.
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) Uncompressed files for images, text and objects. Only print on PostScript printers.
Erasable Optical Drive A type of optical drive that uses erasable optical discs.
ESDI (Enhanced Small Device Interface) A defined, common electronic interface for transferring data between computers and peripherals, particularly disc drives.
ESI Electronically stored information.
ESI (Electronically Stored Information) Files or other data that are stored on computers, file servers, disks, tape or other devices or media.
ESI Archival Systems Although the ESI has been removed from the primary storage system, it may still be accessible by the user with some delay in retrieval.
ESI Audio Systems Covers traditional phone systems, phone messages, announcement systems and any other systems that transmit and record sound.
ESI Backup Systems These systems may be considered 'inaccessible' under the new FRCP, but should be identified and addressed within the discovery process.
ESI Collaboration Systems Although collaboration systems can include all communication systems, they specifically address systems that are used to manage group activities and share…
ESI Communication Systems Although discovery and corporate communications have been dominated by email, the emergence of Unified Messaging Systems deserves consideration when…
ESI Data Retention Archival Systems System specifically designed to store designated 'Corporate Records' to automate compliance with the corporate records retention policy.
ESI Data Storage Systems Also called Mass Storage, "the storage of large amounts of information in a persisting and machine- readable fashion.
ESI Email Systems Although MS Exchange and Lotus Domino predominate in publicly owned corporations, there are many other potential email systems that users and small…
ESI IM Systems Unless the corporation captures or monitors instant messaging (IM) traffic with an enterprise system, there may by little or no organized records of IM…
ESI Information Management Systems "Enterprise Content Management is the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver content and documents related to organizational…
ESI Litigation Hold Archival Systems System specifically designed to store copies of ESI within an archival repository to effect Legal Holds on corporate data.
ESI Mobile Communications Systems "The mobile phone or mobile, also called a cellular phone, or cell phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication that…
ESI Process Management Systems Customer relationship (call center), supply chain, procurement. The system is built to support a business process and touches multiple parties.
ESI Structured Data Storage Systems System that records data into an organized database or relational structure based on arrays, unions and other data types for efficient use.
ESI Structured Storage Systems Some overlap here with Sharepoint and other collaboration systems, but the intent is to give a specific ESI type for enterprise systems that store…
ESI Unstructured Data Storage Systems Refers to any mass storage system that does not have an organizational or relational data structure to manage the information and electronic items.
ESI User Systems User systems are local computers, laptops and even small networks that are not maintained by the corporate IT administration group.
ESI Video Systems Covers all systems that capture still images and motion image series for storage.
Ethernet A common way of networking PCs to create a LAN.
Evidentiary Image or Copy See Forensic Copy.
Exabyte A unit of 1000 petabytes. See Byte.
export Data extracted or taken out of one environment or application usually in a prescribed format, and usually for import into another environment or…
Extended Partitions If a computer hard drive has been divided into more than four partitions, extended partitions are created.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortiumthe Web development standards board).
extranet An Internet based access method to a corporate intranet site by limited or total access through a security firewall.
Extrinsic Data Information about the file, such as file signature, author, size, name, path, and creation and modification dates.