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New Article Explores Metadata
Posted by Gregg Mayer on Friday, April 4th, 2008
A newly published article offers a comprehensive examination of metadata. The article offers insight into different types of metadata, and discusses case law about it used in court. The article even addresses the first important metadata case:
Perhaps the first case to appreciate the importance of metadata was [the 1993 case of] Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President. In Armstrong, the court decided that paper copies of electronic mail did not qualify as an “extra copy” for purposes of the Federal Records Act, which would allow the originals to be destroyed, “because important information present in the email system, such as who sent a document, who received it, and when that person received it, will not always appear on the computer screen and so will not be preserved on the paper print-out.” Although not explicitly referring to this type of information as “metadata,” the Armstrong court clearly recognized that its value warranted preservation.
Read the entire article in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology here.
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