TechTracker : metadata

Reporters and Electronic Evidence

Serge Obolensky, CAE — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:23:00 GMT

November-December 2008 JCR

By Nancy J. Hopp, RDR, CRR, CMRS

December 1, 2006, is a date that changed the world of litigation for judges and lawyers alike. You didn’t notice the earth shaking? Maybe we didn’t feel anything because those tremors are only now manifesting in the court reporting world.

On that date, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure1 were adopted to accommodate a relatively new form of evidence not contemplated when the original rules were fi rst enacted. This rule has changed the defi nition of “original document” and established a new class of evidence, most commonly referred to as “electronically stored information,” “ESI,” or “e-discovery.” It encompasses not only document images and digital photos but also fi le formats commonly used in our everyday lives.

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Review: Premiere Pro CS4

Serge Obolensky, CAE — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:59:00 GMT

From a portion of a review on MacWorld by Antony Bolante

November 4, 2008

Speech transcription

However useful it may be, it’s hard to get excited about manually logging metadata—or as Adobe calls it, metalogging. But many editors will be thrilled to hear about one of the Metadata panel’s features: automated speech transcription. The speech transcript feature analyzes a selected clip’s audio and transcribes spoken words to the Metadata panel. You can specify one of several languages to transcribe, including English as it’s spoken in four regions of the world: Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. You can even set it to identify different speakers. When you play the clip, each spoken word is highlighted in the transcript. Conversely, double-clicking a word in the transcript cues the clip to the corresponding frame in the Source panel. To find a particular word in the selected clip, just type it in a search field.

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Coming to Terms on Mining Metadata

Serge Obolensky, CAE — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:52:00 GMT

The following article is from Law.com Legal Technology Section

By Norman C. Simon
October 28, 2008

Nearly every electronic document contains metadata: embedded information that is generated during the course of its creation, editing or transmission. Metadata can reveal much about a document, including who authored, modified or viewed it and when, any edits to or comments about the document, and any content that was deleted from the final version. Metadata also may reveal confidential information or attorney work-product. For instance, sensitive information about prior clients may be embedded in contract templates, and drafts revealing litigation strategy may be hidden in briefs.

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