jeudi 22 mai 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.

Another capability it has is OpenCalais entity extraction. This is very useful if someone is searching for a particular term, or a name of a person, place, or company, a custom search can be performed to extract the data of interest to them. The API which stands for "application programming interface" permits this functionality.

One other task this application is capable of is generating a timeline based on the dates contained in a specific document. Dates are scanned and sorted into a handy timeline of events. This facilitates presenting information in an orderly and logical manner.

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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