Good article on clustering and concept searching from Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D via Applied Discovery:
Some years ago, I found that the number of cases that mentioned electronic documents was doubling about every six months. As electronic information came to dominate discovery, though, there was a shift. Cases no longer needed to discuss electronic documents explicitly, because virtually all of them—all of the documents and all of the cases—were electronic. Electronic discovery simply became “discovery.”Ten years ago, a gigabyte was a big collection, now a terabyte (a thousand gigabytes) is not unusual and multi-terabyte collections are common.Ten years ago, the big discussion was paper or plastic? Do you have to print out documents in order to effectively review them or can you review them from a computer screen? Now the big discussion is how can we use technology rein in the burden of eDiscovery…
