Even the most techno-phobic attorney likely could recite the often-used definition of metadata: “data about data.” However, there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which every practitioner should be aware.
Metadata refers to a wide spectrum of data contained in, or associated with, electronic files. On a basic level, metadata may include such information as the author, date created or date modified, as well as user-embedded comments or tracked changes within the content of a document. From a more technical perspective, there are many categories of metadata, including, for example, document metadata, application metadata and user-added metadata. There are many useful resources that provide guidance to better understand metadata. See The Sedona Conference Glossary: E-Discovery & Digital Information Management (4th ed. April 2014), https://thesedonaconference.org/download-pub/3757 (last visited Apr. 7, 2015).
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