Extract from Craig Ball’s article “A Primer on Processing and a Milestone”
Today, I published my primer on processing. It’s fifty-odd pages on a topic that’s warranted barely a handful of paragraphs anywhere else. I wrote it for the upcoming Georgetown Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute and most of the material is brand new, covering a stage of e-discovery–a “black box” stage–where a lot can go quietly wrong. Processing is something hardly anyone thinks about until it blows up.
Laying the foundation for a deep dive on processing required I include a crash course on the fundamentals of digitization and encoding.
