EDiscovery Load

Loading eDiscovery is currently in beta testing. The loader will load the files and associate them with their seized filename from the gicen concordance file. Please provide feedback on where we should go with eDiscovery.

eDiscovery

eDiscovery data dumps are just weird. In American litigation, documents are given unique serial numbers. This allows all parties to identify the exact document in question during proceedings. As you can imagine, this is very labor intensive. Things got better in 1890 when Ed Bates created the first Bates Numbering machine. You would stamp a serial number on a document and it would automatically increment the number for the next page. This idea carried over into the digital world when "documents" became PDF files, Word documents, text files, etc. All of a sudden, Bates numbering didn't work so well. Industry settled on a solution where seized files would be transformed into images, the filename for each image would be the Bates number and a master index file (aka concordance, aka load file) would map the Bates numbers to their original file. It is ugly and it works.

eDiscovery Layout

A typical eDiscovery dump will be a root folder containing a concordance file and sub folders for each volume (VOL00001) of data collected. Each volume folder will have two sub folders, IMAGES and NATIVES. They will have many subfolders in them that contain the Bates numbered files. Here's some sample paths:

Prod 01_20250822\20250822.dat
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES001\DOJ-OGR-00000001.tif
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg
Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\NATIVES\NATIVE006\DOJ-OGR-00015624.MP4

eDiscovery Load

Simply load the concordance file and Truxton will process it, then load all of the images and native files. The original structure of the files and folders will be replaced with information from the concordance file. Truxton will create a folder for each original file specified in the concordance and put the files that match the given Bates number range beneath it. This will associate the Bates files with their origins.

cd Prod 01_20250822
load.exe 20250822.dat

Example

The 20250822.dat concordance file mapped Bates numbers DOJ-OGR-00002935 to DOJ-OGR-00003173 to a file named 204.pdf. Each page of the PDF was extracted as an image file (usually a JPG or TIFF). When the folder structure above is loaded, the Prod 01_20250822\VOL00001\IMAGES\IMAGES002\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg file will appear in Truxton with the path Root - 20250822.dat\204.pdf\DOJ-OGR-00002936.jpg