11.1. Finding Evidential Material in Documents: Metadata

Documents are arguably one of the most important areas where metadata is found. The rapidly growing field of e-discovery has figuratively found a goldmine with metadata and the use of it to win court cases. It is no understatement to say that in addition to attorneys wanting to find the memorandum, they want to also find the metadata to prove who wrote the memorandum and when.

The following list describes the basic types of metadata found in a typical word processing document: