Legal coding
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Legal coding is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast-search index or database of documents for use in litigation.
[edit] Objective coding
Objective coding is creating an index of objective summary data from a document, and (if discoverable), would include such information as dates, author, recipient and title.
[edit] Subjective coding
Subjective coding is the indexing of documents around subjective data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more realiable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.
