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'''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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[http://www.claydesk.com Document Coders] play a valuable role in large-scale litigation and high-volume document productions. Document coding (also called objective coding, legal coding or litigation coding) is a form of data entry in which coders review batches of legal documents to capture specific, predefined metadata such as document type, date, author, bates number, etc. Document coders enter that data into a searchable database that allows documents – which may number in the millions - to be easily sorted and retrieved during the course of litigation.

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