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An open source database system for documenting human rights violations.
This free application allows human rights groups to set up their own database of violations without fear of security violations or data loss. Incidents each have their own level of privacy / publicity, and it is hoped that the public data will have value when aggregated. The data model is called 'Who did What to Whom, and is supplemented by a controlled vocabulary defined by each group. GIS data can be stored.
There is a statistical called Multiple Systems Estimation, which analyses all the entries, supports the marking of duplicate reports and uses the data to estimate unreported incidents.
The project is complete and the emphasis now is all on supporting organisations to use it.
The software itself has some basic reporting tools which are being further developed. There is also a separate application called Analyzer.
Posted October 22nd, 2007 by matslats

