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Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Document Cloud Is A Must-Have Application For The Newsroom

By Loris F. Andres


The job of a newsroom journalist is one that involves a fair amount of multitasking and organizing information contained in large collections of documents. Document Cloud is a handy software platform designed with the journalist in mind, which makes the analysis, annotation, and publication of documents much more efficient for busy editors and reporters. It can be used in a number of helpful ways.

Private notes pertaining to a particular record can be made and stored. The user has the freedom to add these to any section of the document on a tab designated for this purpose. This is more private and organized than the old-school method of attaching sticky "Post-It" note papers to the actual hard copy of the document.

In other cases, it may be be beneficial for two or more people to review a file and make annotations on it that they intend to share with others, which is also possible with the use of this application. Such annotations can even be organized into a presentation form for public sharing if so desired.

Users can also take advantage of its OpenCalais data extraction tool when they need to look for names of particular people, places, organizations, or other entities. There is also the option of word-pairing and performing custom searches. This feature is made possible through the "application programming interface" or API.

A dateline can also be generated from any dates the file contains. Dates are read and processed into an orderly timeline of events. This feature can come in handy for those who need to present the material in an organized fashion.

While it can effectively analyze one single record, it is also of great assistance when dealing with a high volume compilation of records which need to be analyzed. Overall it can make any reporting project run more smoothly by enabling entity extraction, timeline creation, and makes it simple to embed a collection and collaborate with others.




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