Poderopedia Plug & Play Platform
From the post:
Poderopedia Plug & Play Platform is a Data Intelligence Management System that allows you to create and manage large semantic datasets of information about entities, map and visualize entity connections, include entity related documents, add and show sources of information and news mentions of entities, displaying all the information in a public or private website, that can work as a standalone product or as a public searchable database that can interoperate with a Newsroom website, for example, providing rich contextual information for news content using it`s archive.
Poderopedia Plug & Play Platform is a free open source software developed by the Poderomedia Foundation, thanks to the generous support of a Knight News Challenge 2011 grant by the Knight Foundation, a Startup Chile 2012 grant and a 2013 Knight fellowship grant by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
WHAT CAN I USE IT FOR?
For anything that involves mapping entities and connections.
A few real examples:
- NewsStack, an Africa News Challenge Winner, will use it for a pan-African investigation by 10 media organizations into the continent’s extractive industries.
- Newsrooms from Europe and Latin America want to use it to make their own public searchable databases of entities, reuse their archive to develop new information products, provide context to new stories and make data visualizations—something like making their own Crunchbase.
Other ideas:
- Use existing data to make searchable databases and visualizations of congresspeople, bills passed, what they own, who funds them, etc.
- Map lobbyists and who they lobby and for whom
- Create a NBApedia, Baseballpedia or Soccerpedia. Show data and connections about team owners, team managers, players, all their stats, salaries and related business
- Map links between NSA, Prism and Silicon Valley
- Keep track of foundation grants, projects that received funding, etc.
- Anything related to data intelligence
CORE FEATURES
Plug & Play allows you to create and manage entity profile pages that include: short bio or summary, sheet of connections, long newsworthy profiles, maps of connections of an entity, documents related to the entity, sources of all the information and news river with external news about the entity.
Among several features (please see full list here) it includes:
- Entity pages
- Connections data sheet
- Data visualizations without coding
- Annotated documents repository
- Add sources of information
- News river
- Faceted Search (using Solr)
- Semantic ontology to express connections
- Republish options and metrics record
- View entity history
- Report errors and inappropriate content
- Suggest connections and new entities to add
- Needs updating alerts
- Send anonymous tips
Hmmm, when they say:
For anything that involves mapping entities and connections.
Topic maps would say:
For anything that involves mapping subjects and associations.
Poderopedia does lack is a notion of subject identity that would support “merging.”
I am going to install Poderopedia locally and see what the UI is like.
Appreciate your comments and reports if you do the same.
Plus suggestions about adding topic map capabilities to Poderopedia.
I first saw this in Nat Torkington’s Four Short Links: 5 July 2013.