http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer Quick Primer: A PlanetEIM Resource Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:31:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Categorization has become important to email management as organizations seek to apply retention management policies that meet the guidelines for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. One way to categorize messages is to use Outlook 2007 categories. The ability to manually and automatically categorize messages from directly within Outlook makes ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/records-management/outlook-2007-categories/ Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional includes a built-in ability to Bates Number large numbers of PDF files. If your litigation produces PDF files, Acrobat 8 Professional could be the way to go. This post provides a quick primer on Acrobat's capability with links to more detailed information. An upcoming post will ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/bates-numbering-in-acrobat-8-professional/ As E-Discovery moves to native format files a recurring topic is how to perform Bates Numbering. Traditionally, Bates Numbering was applied to TIFF and PDF static images since virtually any native format ESI could be turned into page-based static files with numbering applied. The issues with Bates Numbering and native ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/bates-numbering-native-format-esi/ There has been much debate regarding the use of taxonomies and folksonomies within the enterprise. Taxonomies are controlled vocabularies created by an organization in a top-down approach while folksonomies allow anyone to participate in the classification scheme in a bottom-up approach and are very popular on the web in the ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/records-management/taxonomy-versus-folksonomy/ Clearwell Systems announced Transparent Search on August 26, 2008. This is a set of features built around the ability to inspect and perform filtering on wildcard, proximity, fuzzy, and concept searches. The features built around this core capability include: search preview, search filters, search report, and multiple query searches. This ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/clearwell-transparent-search-overview/ Recommind Decisiv™ Email is a method of semi- or fully- automating email categorization that works with Microsoft Outlook. By automating categorization of email, it addresses one of the largest issues with email records management and the ability for organizations to delete non-business email to reduce information risk. Decisiv Email was ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/records-management/recommind-decisiv-email/ NAS, or network attached storage, has become a convenient way to host large amounts of files on the network. Andy Kass and Willem R. van den Berge respond to Calvin Smith's question as presented below. Subject: Concordance on NASFrom: Andy KassPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:14 amURL: http://www.litigation-support.org/viewtopic.php?t=16712 Calvin, In short: Don't. Concordance wants ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/concordance-nas/ One of the questions I run across is in regards to who is a custodian, primarily whether custodians tend to be system administrators or individual end users. Often times, it can be argued either way. Here are some sample definitions: Sedona Conference glossary - custodian: Person having control over a network, ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/edrm-custodian-definitions/ ESI data maps and their creation have become an important topic in the wake of the amendments to the FRCP which extend coverage to ESI. Data maps are a proactive eDiscovery tool similar to archiving and search solutions which can shorten the effort needed per case. This post provides a ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/esi-data-maps-for-frcp/ While there are many commercial tools that will convert between various email formats, for NSF to PST conversion, John Randall of Randall Consulting provides the following warnings: Subject: Lotus Notes to .pstFrom: John RandallDate: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:58 pmURL: http://www.litigation-support.org/viewtopic.php?t=16502 You should be very careful of any migration tool that converts ... http://www.planeteim.com/quickprimer/ediscovery/litsupport/nsf-to-pst-conversion-issue/