[Bigdatasur] Open Sourcing the Data Journalism Handbook with Grafoscopio

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi,

In our last meeting in Cartagena, I mentioned "pocket infrastructures"
for data activism. We have been working on them and in building a
community around. Below is an announcement of our most recent stuff.

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Recently, in our local hackerspace[0], we used, extended and adapted,
Grafoscopio[1] to recreate the first open source version of the Data
Journalism Handbook[2], in Spanish in several formats: PDF, Markdown,
native notebook (STON). Quoting from the project page:

    There are some interesting Free Cultural Works which are not open
sourced.
    This means that, they are covered under pretty liberal licenses,
    allowing their remix, sale and modification, but the infrastructures
    which support the creation, modification and publishing of such works,
    don’t allow wide participation and deep traceability of their history of
    such collective endeavors.

    This is our approach about alternative ways for creating such works,
    addressing the above problem, using the Data Journalism Handbook as an
    example (English, Spanish) and *pocket infrastructures*, which are
simple, self
    contained, and work well on-line and off-line, like Fossil and
Grafoscopio
    Also we extended and adapted Grafoscopio, during this project,
    to make the tool suit the problem (and not the usual other way around).

More information and downaloadable files in the project source code
repository [3]:

# Links

[0] http://hackbo.co/
[1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
[2] http://datajournalismhandbook.org/
[3] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/mapeda/

And, of course, the customary screenshots:

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Captura de pantalla del manual en Grafoscopio.

Cheers,

Offray

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