Friday, May 23, 2014

Document Cloud Is The Perfect Addition To Any Newsroom

By Loris F. Andres


Newsroom journalism is a field which calls for a considerable amount of multitasking and perusing large compilations of documents at times. This job is made much easier for the tech-savvy journalist with the Document Cloud software platform. Analysis, annotation, and publication of documents can be performed efficiently and quickly, making life a little easier for busy reporters and editors.

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.

While some notes may be best kept private, there are other instances which require more than one person to collaborate on a particular issue so sharing of annotations is necessitated. Fortunately, this is also possible with this app, not only can users review each others annotations, but they can also arrange them into a presentation.

OpenCalais data extraction is another advantage this app offers. Specific names of places, people, organizations, and such can be scanned for in documents and identified. Custom searches and word-pairing are also possible. The API, or "application programming interface" makes this option available.

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.

Whether it's needed to analyze one file or an extensive collection of them, this tool can handle it all. Every reporting project will go off without a hitch with this highly useful app that will make such tasks as timeline production, data extraction, embedding compilations, and collaborating with others easy and straightforward.




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