Tom,

The Knight funded OpenNews project <https://opennews.org/> is not exactly a
community but certainly is working along those lines. Their upcoming SRCCON
<http://srccon.org/>conference seems focused on the same kinds of things
code4lib is, but for journalism.

Another upcoming conference, 'csv,conf' <http://csvconf.com/> is bringing
together journalists and open source tech folks, as well as civic hackers,
and even a few cultural heritage folks, to talk about the technology they
are using to work with open data.

Chad

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:07 AM Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this.
> Excerpts like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News”
> community, and if so, how do we find and connect with them. It seems we
> have a lot in common, and maybe a lot to offer each other.
>
>
> MC: What we’ve achieved is pretty remarkable. Newsrooms are in an economic
> crisis. No newsroom right now--except for maybe The New York Times and a
> few others--have the capability to do something major like this at a global
> scale. But we’re showing it’s possible. We share data, we produce tools for
> communication, we share our stories and our interactives, to make it happen.
>
> - Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Gregory Markus <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Hey Sebastian,
>
> They go into a lot of detail in this article
>
>
> https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration
>
> Indeed this is pretty interesting stuff and a good shout out for Blacklight
> and other OS tools!
>
> -greg
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sebastian Karcher <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers:
> "The ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the
> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak investigations.
> Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum where reporters could post the
> fruits of their research, as well as database search program called
> “Blacklight” that allowed the teams to hunt for specific names, countries
> or sources."
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/how-a-cryptic-message-interested-in-data-led-to-the-panama-papers.html
>
> I assume this is http://projectblacklight.org/, which is pretty cool to
> see
> used that way. Does anyone know or have read anything about the other tools
> they used? What did they use for OCR? Did they use qualitative data
> analysis software? Some type of annotation tools? It seems like there's a
> lot to learn from this effort.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Sebastian Karcher, PhD
> Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University
> qdr.syr.edu
>
>
>
>
> --
>
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