Glossary of eDiscovery Related Terms

A

• Ablate
• Ablative
• Acetate-base film
• ACL (Access Control List)
• Active Data
• Active Records
• ADC
• Address
• ADF
• AIM
• Algorithm
• Aliasing
• Alphanumeric
• Ambient Data
• Analog
• Annotations
• ANSI
• Aperture Card
• Application
• Architecture
• Archival Data
• Archive, Electronic Archive
• ARMA International
• Artificial Intelligence
• ASCII
• Aspect Ratio
• Attachment
• Attribution
• Audit Trail
• Authentication
• Author or Originator
• AVI

B

• Backbone
• Backfiles
• Backup
• Backup Data
• Backup Tape Recycling
• Backup Tapes
• Bit-for-bit copy
• Bug
• Burn
• Bus
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Byte

C

• Cache
• Caching
• Case De-Duplication
• Catalog
• CCD
• CCITT Group 4
• CCITT
• CDPD
• CD-R
• CD-RW
• CD-ROM
• Centronics Interface
• Certificate
• Chain of Custody
• Content Comparison
• Contextual Search
• Continuous Tone
• Convergence
• Cookie
• Corrupted File
• COTS
• CPI
• CPU
• CRC
• CRM
• Cross-Custodian De-Duplication

D

• DAC
• DAD
• DAT
• Data
• Data Collection
• Data Element
• Data Extraction
• Data Field
• Data Filtering
• Data Formats
• DVD-ROM

E

• Email Metadata
• Evidentiary Image

F

• Fiber Optics
• Fiche
• Field
• Field Separator
• File Compression
• File Extension
• File Format
• File Level Binary Comparison
• File Metadata
• File Plan
• File Server
• Forensic Copy

G

• GAL
• Ghost
• GIF
• Gigabyte
• GMT Timestamp
• GPS
• GPS Generated Timestamp
• Gray Scale

H

• Hacker
• Half Duplex
• Half Tone
• Hard Disk Drive
• Harvesting
• Hash
• Hash Coding
• Hash Function
• HD
• Head
• Hexadecimal
• Hidden Files or Data

I

• Icon
• ICR
• IDE
• IEEE
• ILM
• Image copy
• Image Metadata

J

• Janitor program
• Java
• Jaz Drive
• Jukebox
• Jump Drive

K

• Kerning
• Key Drive
• Key field
• Keyword search
• Keywords
• Kilobyte
• Kofax Board

L

• LAN (Local Area Network)
• Landscape Mode
• Laser Disc
• Laser Printing
• Legal Hold
• Level Codig
• LFPO
• Lifecycle
• Line Screen
• Link
• Linux
• Load file

M

• Magenta
• Magnetic/Optical Storage Media
• Magneto-Optical Drive
• Mailbox
• Make-Available Production
• MD5
• Metadata
• MFT
• MICR
• Microfiche
• Microfilm
• Migrated Data
• Migration
• Mirroring

N

• Native Format
• Natural Language Search
• Near-Line Data
• Near-Line Data Storage
• Network Gear
• Network
• Neural Network
• NIST
• Node
• Noninterlace
• NOS
• NSF

O

• Objects
• OCR (Optical character recognition)
• Official Record Owner. See [Record Owner]
• Off-line data
• Off-line storage
• OLE
• On-Line Review
• On-Line Storage
• On-Line
• Operating System
• Optical Disks
• Optical Jukebox
• OST
• Overwrite

P

• PAB
• Packbits
• Packet
• Page File
• Page
• Parallel
• Partition
• Partition Table
• Partition Waste Space
• Password
• Path
• Pattern Matching
• Pattern Recognition
• PCI
• PCMCIA
• PDA
• PDF
• Personal Computer
• Petabyte
• Phase Change
• Physical Ddisc
• Physical File Space
• Pica
• Picture Element
• Pitch
• PKI Digital Signature
• Plaintext
• Platter
• Program
• Properties
• Protocol
• Proximity Search
• Public Network
• PST

Q

• QBIC
• Quality Control
• Quarter Inch Cartridge
• Query
• Queue

R

• RAID
• Record Owner
• REV Drive
• RIP
• RIM
• RLE
• ROM
• Root Directory
• Rotary Camera
• Router

S

• Sampling Rate
• Sampling
• SAN
• SHA
• Smart Card
• SMTP
• Software Application
• Software
• Speckle

T

• T1
• T3
• Tape Drive
• Taxonomy
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
• Telephony
• Templates
• Temporary File
• Terabyte
• TGA
• Thin Client
• Thread
• Thumb Drive
• Thumbnail
• TIFF
• TIFF Group III Compression
• TIFF Group IV Compression
• Toggle
• Tool Kit Without An Interesting Name
• Toolbar
• Topology
• Track
• True Resolution
• Typeface

U

• Ultrafiche
• UMS
• Unallocated Space
• Unitization
• UNIX
• Upgrade
• Upload
• URI
• URL
• User-Added Metadata

V

• V.32bis
• V.34
• Validate
• VAD
• VAR
• VASD
• VDT
• Vector
• Vendor-Added Metadata
• Verbatim Coding
• Version, Record Version
• Vertical De-Duplication
• VGA
• Video Electronics Standards Association
• Video Scanner Interface
• Virus
• Vital Record
• VoIP
• Volume
• Volume Boot Sector
• VPN

W

• WAV
• Web Site
• Workflow
• Workgroup
• WORM Disks
• WORM
• WWW
• WYSIWYG

X

• X.25
• XML

Y

Z

• Zip Drives
• Zip
• Zone OCR