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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]].

==Objective coding==Coding Definitions

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

Objective coding is creating an index of [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]] summary data from a document, and (if discoverable), would include such information as dates, author, recipient and title.

• 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 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’s computer.

==Subjective coding==