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 <chadbnel...@gmail.com> 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 <tcra...@stanford.edu> 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 <gmar...@beeldengeluid.nl > > <mailto:gmar...@beeldengeluid.nl>> 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 < > > karc...@u.northwestern.edu> 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 > > > > >