Request for help with database of Kenyan election violence

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Request for help with database of Kenyan election violence

От:
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Дата:
Hello,

The Kenya National Commission for Human Rights is investigating
the violence in Kenya.  This has led to an urgent request on Groklaw
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080202013451629
for assistance in setting up a database.

I have suggested that a suite of PostgreSQL based tools might
be appropriate.
http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20080202013451629&title=Postgresql%20and%20phpPgAdmin&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=0#c669544

If you have any comment on my suggestions, suggestions for
additional or better suited tools, or otherwise
wish to help with such a project please chime in on
groklaw.

I have not used Postgres Forms and so am not 100% confident
in my proposal.

Thank you.

Karl 
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein

Re: Request for help with database of Kenyan election violence

От:
"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
Дата:
On Feb 2, 2008 4:51 PM, Karl O. Pinc  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Kenya National Commission for Human Rights is investigating
> the violence in Kenya.  This has led to an urgent request on Groklaw
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080202013451629
> for assistance in setting up a database.
>
> I have suggested that a suite of PostgreSQL based tools might
> be appropriate.
> http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20080202013451629&title=Postgresql%20and%20phpPgAdmin&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=0#c669544
>
> If you have any comment on my suggestions, suggestions for
> additional or better suited tools, or otherwise
> wish to help with such a project please chime in on
> groklaw.
>
> I have not used Postgres Forms and so am not 100% confident
> in my proposal.
>
> Thank you.

I hope that discussions are raging *MORE* about what the kinds of
functionality actually needed are, notably with respect to
 - what specific sorts of data needs to be collected
 - what known correlations there are (which would tend to imply the
shape of the DB
   schema)

as THAT sort of detail is what will allow technical choices to become
defensible.

As it stands, I have no idea whether the tools you suggest are
suitable for the requirements, because I really don't know what the
requirements are.

One thing that I *do* see in browsing the Groklaw discussion is that
there seems to be some risk of inconvenient things disappearing, so
that it seems likely that part of the design needs to include a
regular "escrow" process whereby data is transmitted to a remote (and
preferably outside-Kenya) location.  That's a requirement - not a
technology choice.

The longer you can keep attention focused on what is needed, in
technology-agnostic terms, the better.

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expecting different results."  -- assortedly attributed to Albert
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