Description: Although the ESI has
been removed from the primary storage system, it may still be
accessible by the user with some delay in retrieval. Alternatively,
a special IT or Legal custodian may have rights to retrieve ESI
from the archive. Some Archival Systems are effectively Structured,
while most systems retain some relational information such as date,
owner and original location but no other real structured data.
Almost all modern Archival Systems index the ESI for text
searching, but few were designed for the level of accuracy and
retrieval expected in discovery. The semi-structured nature of
enterprise archives can dramatically increase the volume of
potentially relevant ESI without enabling the responding party to
find the truly relevant within the corpus.