Document Cloud Makes The Work Of A Journalist Much Easier

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.

It also provides users with the opportunity to collaboratively share annotations with others and even publish them if desired. This permits greater ability for conferencing on issues and makes it possible to organize these annotations into a comprehensive presentation mode so these thoughts can be publicly shared.

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.

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.

Effective for analyzing one individual file or a huge volume containing thousands of files, this app can handle it all. Generally speaking, it is a great asset to any bustling newsroom and is bound to make any reporting project go as planned by providing the useful features of collection embedding, timeline creation, entity extraction, and its collaborative nature.




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