PANDA Project (News Reporters)
From the webpage:
Information on a deadline The newsroom’s data at your fingertips, available at the speed of breaking news.
Smarter, not harder Subscribe to your favorite searches to get an email when news happens.
Institutional memory People are going to leave, but your data shouldn’t. Make it faster for new reporters to find stories in data.
Newsroom born & raised PANDA was built by newsroom developers, with the support of The Knight Foundation. It is sustained by Investigative Reporters and Editors.
PANDA is …
- A private data library for your newsroom
- A place for teams to share spreadsheets
- A place to keep your FOIA requests
- Your robot friend that emails you important news
- A search engine for your names, phone numbers and more
You can install PANDA on Amazon EC2 or on your own hardware, assuming you are using Ubuntu 12.02.
I haven’t set this up (yet) but it looks promising. I don’t see an obvious way to store observations about data for discovery by others or how to create links (associations) between data. To say nothing of annotating subjects I find in the data.
Capturing that level of institutional knowledge might to might not be socially acceptable. I recall reading about an automatic collaborative bookmarks application developed by a news room that faced opposition from reporters not wanting to share their links. Sounded odd to me but I pass it along for your consideration.