The Knight News Challenge grant also funded DocumentCloud ( open source
newsroom platform for uploading, annotating, sharing documents ), which
actually created Backbone.js and Underscore.js. They have a pretty active
community.




On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Chad Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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> >
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