Lawrie Hall is Head of Case Management at CYFOR.
In this video he discusses the benefits of using an online review platform for conducting eDisclosure exercises.
He begins by asking “What if you did not have a review platform?”. It would be necessary, he says, to open each document in turn, review it, annotate it, close it and move on to the next. An online review platform allows you to search the whole body of documents at once and to make bulk changes to records which are of the same kind, perhaps because they are conceptually similar.
Lawrie Hall emphasises that review platforms can be used for documents which exist only as paper and he describes the process by which they can be brought into the review platform. They can be scanned and the text extracted with optical character recognition; significant data like dates, the author and recipient etc can be added so that the paper documents can be searched using the same methods as the electronic ones.
eDisclosure Information Project 