I work in litigation support, in a digital archiving department. Scan, print, convert to tif/pdf, return with loadfile & metadata for database.
Nightmares. Twitchy screaming nightmares with slimy poisonous tentacles of DOOM.
Surrounded by lawyers who ask us for "searchable tifs." And who seem to think we keep databases of every project we've ever done, complete with the name of the case, the custodians involved, and cross-referenced with relevant legal precedents. (We, umm, printed the stuff on the disc. And then we gave the disc back. We kept a digital copy. It's called "_Disc [clientname] 09 15 07.")
Sometime soon, there's gonna be some huge industry-spanning lawsuit across a dozen cities or law firms or megacorps (at some level, those are interchangeable concepts) who are supposed to be keeping "digital archives" but what actually happened is "umm, our server backed up the hard drives, didn't it?"
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Nightmares. Twitchy screaming nightmares with slimy poisonous tentacles of DOOM.
Surrounded by lawyers who ask us for "searchable tifs." And who seem to think we keep databases of every project we've ever done, complete with the name of the case, the custodians involved, and cross-referenced with relevant legal precedents. (We, umm, printed the stuff on the disc. And then we gave the disc back. We kept a digital copy. It's called "_Disc [clientname] 09 15 07.")
Sometime soon, there's gonna be some huge industry-spanning lawsuit across a dozen cities or law firms or megacorps (at some level, those are interchangeable concepts) who are supposed to be keeping "digital archives" but what actually happened is "umm, our server backed up the hard drives, didn't it?"