Information Governance (InfoGovernance) is the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Information governance should be an element in planning an enterprise's information architecture.

(Gartner Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance, 2009, December 2009).

An Engagement Area (EA) is an area where the commander of a military force intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons systems.

(FM 1-02, Operational Terms and Graphics, September 2004).

Monday, September 8, 2014

Cormack and Grossman Talk Turkey, Respond to Roitblat

By Gordon V. Cormack and Maura Grossman
This guest blog constitutes the first public response by Professor Cormack and Maura Grossman, J.D., Ph.D., to articles published by one vendor, and others, that criticize their work. In the Editor’s opinion the criticisms are replete with misinformation and thus unfair. For background on the Cormack Grossman study in question, Evaluation of Machine-Learning Protocols for Technology-Assisted Review in Electronic DiscoverySIGIR’14, July 6–11, 2014, and the Editor’s views on this important research seeLatest Grossman and Cormack Study Proves Folly of Using Random Search For Machine Training – Part One and Part Two and Part Three. After remaining silent for some time in the face of constant vendor potshots, Professor Cormack and Dr. Grossman feel that a response is now necessary. They choose to speak at this time in this blog because, in their words:
We would have preferred to address criticism of our work in scientifically recognized venues, such as academic conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Others, however, have chosen to spread disinformation and to engage in disparagement through social media, direct mailings, and professional meetings. We have been asked by a number of people for comment and felt it necessary to respond in this medium.