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
