[okfn-labs] Data validation workflow management

Mon Nov 5 20:27:00 UTC 2012

Dear Jun,

I don't think I know a complete solution to your requirements either, but
have you looked at:

OpenEvSys: http://www.huridocs.org/openevsys/
Maltego: http://paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php

Perhaps also the tech used by:
http://www.benetech.org/human_rights/hrdag.shtml

Hope this helps,

- Friedrich

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jun Matsushita <jmatsushita at internews.eu>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> This is my first post, so any guidance on how to better interact with you
> is most welcome.
>
> Tom Rees advised me to post my question to you.
>
> A few times in the past months, I have come to experience a sort of gap
> that appeared in a few very different contexts. The "abstracted" version
> would basically:
>  - allow to submit evidence (anecdotal, scientifically grounded,
> crowdsourced, and most importantly a mix of these...) and,
>  - allow to link these submitted evidences to particular structured
> claims/facts (such as when fact-checking different aspects/components of a
> particular claim) and,
>  - allow to review/validate evidence through a range of different
> methodologies (peer-review, automatic ranking/rating systems, validation
> workflows,...).
>
> Another way to put this is that I started creating Google Spreadsheet
> which have 50+ collaborators and managing the collaboration on individual
> rows in impossible with versioning and crude permissions.
>
> As far as I know, this feature is sometimes included in existing products,
> but is not abstracted in a way that would allow to plugin different data
> store/collection components on the input side, and data
> visualisation/publication on the other side, in a way that is flexibly
> interface-able, configurable by non-techies and available in Open Source
> and Saas so that it can be widely adopted. I've been pointed toward Indaba (
> http://getindaba.org/) as an existing closed source approach to a subset
> of this.
>
> My questions are :
>  - Do you think this is an actual need in data collection and analysis
> projects?
>  - Have you seen this type of workflows being repeatedly implemented in
> different ways in different software products?
>  - Do you know of efforts to build an open source software project that
> would achieve part or whole of these features?
>
> Tom mentioned that Open Government projects usually don't necessarily need
> this type of workflows but suggested maybe Open Science project do. I guess
> this type of verification workflows would be upstream of a platform like
> CKAN, although CKAN could provide extensions to have specific views
> relevant to datasets that are in perpetual validation.
>
> Hope to hear about whether this makes sense to anyone else!
>
> Best,
>
> Jun
>
> Jun Matsushita
> Head of Innovation and Technology
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