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{{Short description|Creating keywords to index legal documents}}

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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]].

'''Legal coding''' is the process of creating summary or [[Index term|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]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Godfrey |first1=Nicholas |last2=Burdon |first2=Mark |date=February 2024 |title=Fidelity in legal coding: applying legal translation frameworks to address interpretive challenges |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |journal=[[Information & Communications Technology Law]] |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=153-176 |doi=10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |access-date=February 16, 2025|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Objective Coding Definitions

• * The recording of basic data such as date, author, or document type, from documents into a database.

• * 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 codingCoding where legal interpretations of data in a document are linked to individual documents. Also called bibliographic coding.

• Also called bibliographic coding.* 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 the metadata, because it was originally typed on the assistant’sassistant's computer.

==Subjective coding==

Subjective coding is the indexing of documents aroundaccording to [[subjectivity|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 reliable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.

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