What do modern productions look like? As Dr. Gavin W. Manes from Avansic discusses, production formats haven’t changed much.

As Gavin discusses (Everything’s New – Except Production Formats, available here), historically, productions come in the form of single page images along with load files containing select metadata (and occasionally native documents for items that couldn’t be imaged.) The images typically had Bates labels and confidentiality designations burned in and sometimes contained redactions.

However, there have been some changes to production formats over the years, which Gavin discusses in the post. For example:

“Several years ago, we switched from 300 dpi CITT Group 4 black and white compression of TIFF images (which meant no grey!) to allow for color in the form of color TIFFs or JPGs. The move from black and white to color had some TV-in-the-sixties vibes, but it was a great improvement. But it is true that some eDiscovery platforms still can’t accept color TIFF files or produce color documents.”

Gavin also discusses the state of TIFF vs. PDF as a production format, native files and metadata, redactions and delivery of productions (including rolling productions). And he discusses what he thinks are the next evolutionary steps in eDiscovery productions.

So, what are the changes in production formats? Find out here, it’s only one click! It’s the only way to produce an understanding of this important topic! 😉

So, what do you think? How have production formats changed in your eDiscovery operations over the years? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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