Check http://www.ushahidi.com/products This is the description on TurnkeyLinux "Ushahidi (Swahili for "testimony" or "witness") is a crowdsourcing application created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election that enables local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events."
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ushahidi -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kari R Smith Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France Jason, DSpace now has a hosted option, DSpace Direct, which might be a really good option for this group. I'll send her an email message directly about it. Looks like it doesn't really launch until summer but what a great option for folks without a IT department to support them. http://dspacedirect.org/dspacedirect Kari Smith -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jason Raitz Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 2:13 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France Hi, I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had an interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading. I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and that she is able to learn what's necessary. I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this message. Cheers, Jason Raitz NCSU Libraries
