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Not the Star Trek kind of Trekky, well, maybe considering the high likelihood most participants (all tech companies) have seen all 7 movies. No offense, live long and prosper TREC participants. This TREC is more about going where no text retrieval algorithm has gone before, and less about finding new planets, although you could make an argument for it...but I digress. TREC stands for the "Text REtrieval Conference" and is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and U.S. Department of Defense. We are very proud to be a participant in their 2009 TREC study. So, what does that mean exactly?
TREC gave us a set of very LARGE data, The Enron emails, a subpoena, and said figure it out. Easy enough right? Maybe for The Enterprise crew this is easy, but for most eDiscovery companies, including us, this is a major challenge and one that has significant meaning. Our job will be to use what we know about search within discovery and find all the relevant emails and attachments that relate to the subpoena. This requires more than just your standard set of boolean keyword searches. We will need to use more powerful text retrieval algorithms to find the needles in the haystack.
None of the participants are allowed to post their results, even if they find every single document relevant to the subpoena. Although it's probably every marketers dream to post the results (assuming they are good), TREC is smart to not allow it. Each participant is required to publish their results, the tools they used, etc. to TREC by September 7th, 2009. So, the clock is ticking. Hopefully, more advanced and accurate methods for text retrieval will come out of this process. If only the good people at NIST offered up a Netflix-like $1m prize (http://logiik.com/L)...sigh. Wish us luck.Read more
Planning to use your electronic exhibits in court? On June, 29, 2009, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York announced an interim measure that denied attorneys permission to bring their laptop computers (in addition to other electronic devices) through security and into the Courthouse short of a specific court order “authorizing a specific attorney to bring a specific electronic device into the building for a specific proceeding.”
This draconian little measure stemmed from the local judges’ concerns that laptops can contain bombs, and that personal electronic devices can make prohibited recordings during a proceeding. The new procedure came from the Southern District’s Ad Hoc Committee – superimposed upon the Court’s Local Civil Rule 1.8, reading “[n]o one other than court officials engaged in the conduct of court business [or federal prosecutors and defenders] shall bring any camera, transmitter, receiver, portable telephone or recording device into any courthouse or its environs without written permission of a judge of that court.” The big difference between the old rule and the new is that under Local Rule 1.8 it was common for judges to sign blanket orders allowing an array of unspecified electronic devices, but the interim rule requires a whole lot of specificity concerning the who, the what, and the when. Simply put, this means a good deal fewer tools in the courthouse.Read more
After six months of development, we are finally launching our new site, which you happen to be on now. Mind blowing, I know. Here is the formal press release we issued about the site:
NEW LOGIK WEBSITE ENLIGHTENS, EDUCATES AND ENTERTAINS
Enhanced resources on Logik.com include a rich library of eDiscovery articles, how-to videos, informative blog posts, and a detailed look into Logik's service offerings and transparent pricing model.
For Immediate Release
WASHINGTON DC, July 28, 2009 -- A new online destination has arrived for those seeking to learn more about Logik and related eDiscovery information with the redesigned Logik.com website. As an eDiscovery processing company, Logik.com's goal is simple: get straight to the point on what they do, how they do it and why their clients love to work with them. Sounds like a pretty simple concept, but it's one that Logik worked hard to implement and get right. What sets the Logik.com website apart from other eDiscovery company websites is how it makes information easy to find. The site is designed with customers (past, present and future), the media and job-seekers in mind -- it's graphically appealing and easy-to-navigate. Logik.com features eDiscovery veteran written (and regularly updated) blog posts, instructional "how-to" and best-practice videos, insightful articles on the industry, technology and key motivators, and eye-candy to please all visitors. And it features Logik's new mascot for eDiscovery processing services: Logikbot.Read more
It's a bird, a plane, no...it's a Pelican case? Have you ever wondered what would happen to a hard drive if you threw it out a four-story building? Odds are the hard drive would smash into a million little pieces that even the best forensic examiner couldn't piece back together. BUT, what if you put that hard drive inside a plastic box, surrounded by impact foam?Read more
Despite it's simple appearance, the humble Command shell can be an extremely powerful tool for automating repetitive or difficult system tasks. Many people are scared away by the lack of GUI elements, but this can be a tremendous asset in terms of making processes consistent and repeatable.
The first command we'll look at may be familiar, most people have seen, heard of or learned the dir command at some point. When run without any arguments, it prints a list of files in the current directory along with some file-system metadata. You may not be aware that dir can be run with several flags and parameters that can modify it's behavior. For instance, typing dir *.txt will filter the list of files according a pattern, in this case it will only list files with a txt extension...Read more
We recently released an update to Gridlogik's feature set. Gridlogik can now analyze PPT files for hidden speaker notes, flag them and extract the hidden text as searchable metadata. This technology makes it easier to find PPT files that have hidden text, which is very handy for doing a native-file review. Plus, the added text means a more comprehensive search index, which could lead to better results.
We can provide the following fields to your database:
MSpptHasNotes (MSPPTHASNOTE)
This is populated with TRUE if a PPT has speaker notes.
MSpptNotesText (MSPPTNOTETXT)
The extracted text from the speaker notes object. This can also be amended to the master BODYTEXT of the PPT if needed.Read more
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