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Open Standards for eDiscovery (OpSED) is a group dedicated to the creation and support of open standards for the eDiscovery industry.

By working with the litigation support community to develop baseline specification and metrics, we hope to encourage the creation of practical standards based on real-world industry requirements and to follow through with software vendors and service providers to encourage the adoption of those standards.

By publishing these works freely and without restriction, we hope to provide open access to knowledge and information about the technical challenges facing this industry, and ultimately increase collective understanding of these issues.

Sounds Great, What's Next?

Some quick destinations on the site:

  • OpSED Community - Get involved, ask a question, or otherwise be part of the OpSED community
  • ESI Data Set - Download the latest version of the data set here!
  • ESI Data Model - Download the latest version of the data model resource package here!
    • ESI Data Access Protocol - Find out all the details about the EDAP protocol, and download a specification or a reference implementation.

Source Code Repositories

We use Mercurial for managing our source code. To browse or obtain a local copy visit:

To gain commit access to those repositories refer to the contact information provided at the above link.

Contact

Feel free to join the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/opsed/ or just email with any questions

Latest news

Community: OpSED Jam Session 06/09/2010
Talk, talk, talk. OpSED existentialism and plans.
Added by Troy Howard 3 months ago

Community: OpSED Jam Session 06/02/2010
Ubuntu + linode + IRC + Redmine + pizza + Cool It Now == major geek-fest
Added by Troy Howard 3 months ago

Community: OpSED Jam Session 05/26/2010
Catching up, new blood, new hosting, new weekly meeting day
Added by Troy Howard 3 months ago

Community: LitSupportAnswers.com: Another great community site!
Go to litsupportanswers.com to get or give answers to litsupport questions.
Added by Troy Howard 9 months ago

Community: OpSED Jam Session 11/19/2009
Jam Session Announcement
Added by Troy Howard 10 months ago

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Latest projects

  • ESI Data Access Protocol (07/10/2010 03:25 am)

    The OpSED ESI Data Access Protocol is a system for allowing the interchange of the electronically stored information (ESI) handled by eDiscovery technology.

    The purpose of defining this data access protocol is to facilitate the creation of standardized software server protocols for handling ESI. An example use would be to create a data server layer on top of a proprietary data store which enables cross-technology interchange of the ESI stored in that system....

  • Library (06/10/2010 03:42 am)

    A library of resources for litigation support professionals.

  • Open Tools for eDiscovery (06/03/2010 09:41 am)

    The OpSED Open Tools for eDiscovery project is a collection of freely available open source software which can be used for eDiscovery processing and project management.

    This collection includes both existing tools made by other projects, as well as specific tools and applications developed by OpSED. ...

  • Community (06/03/2010 05:35 am)

    The OpSED Community project is a place to coordinate with the community. We'll be posting general OpSED information such as meeting times and places, as well as providing information about the various other community resources available (IRC, other sites, etc). See the wiki for more information....

  • ESI Dataset (06/03/2010 05:34 am)

    The OpSED ESI Dataset is a collection of electronically stored information (ESI) for use in testing and evaluating eDiscovery software.