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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 > > > > > -- > > *Gregory Markus* > > Project Assistant > > *Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision* > *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB > Hilversum | * > *beeldengeluid.nl* <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> > *T* 0612350556 > > *Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr > >