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Extracting such information from a document as its author, its mailing date, etc. Objective coding is usually done from the document text or image, because the metadata may be inaccurate. For example, a document written and signed by a partner might show the administrative assistant as the author in
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Extracting information from electronic documents such as date created, author recipient, CC and linking each image to the information in pre-defined objective fields. In direct opposition to Subjective Coding where legal interpretations of data in a document are linked to individual documents. Also
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data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more reliable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.
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The recording of basic data such as date, author, or document type, from documents into a database.
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the metadata, because it was originally typed on the assistant's computer.
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Subjective coding is the indexing of documents according to
71: 26:data from a document. It is widely used in the 16:Creating keywords to index legal documents 72: 22:is the process of creating summary or 57: 13: 14: 96: 30:to create a fast-search index or 1: 41:Objective Coding Definitions 49:called bibliographic coding. 7: 85:Document management systems 10: 101: 34:of documents for use in 58:Subjective coding 92: 28:legal profession 100: 99: 95: 94: 93: 91: 90: 89: 70: 69: 60: 17: 12: 11: 5: 98: 88: 87: 82: 80:Legal citation 59: 56: 55: 54: 50: 46: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 97: 86: 83: 81: 78: 77: 75: 68: 65: 51: 47: 44: 43: 42: 39: 37: 33: 29: 25: 21: 61: 40: 20:Legal coding 19: 18: 74:Categories 64:subjective 36:litigation 32:database 24:keyword 76:: 38:.

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keyword
legal profession
database
litigation
subjective
Categories
Legal citation
Document management systems

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