Is a customized CMS based on Plone with add-ons and customizations for investigative journalists and anti-corruption researchers to store and extract bits of pieces of information on persons of interests, organizations and contracts, using open data standards. It helps make this structured data available in environments where such data is limited.
The base CMS platform functions as a flexible and user friendly way to start an investigation, and then providing a way to store supporting resources and sources, while extracting key metadata.
The metadata then provides additional insights into a story, such as information on persons, their relations with each other, posts in organizations, contratracts, related issues or red flags.
As the data and metadata is stored using open data standards of Popolo-spec, OCDS, COST IDS and others, it can be exported, and also use other tools developed by others using these standards.
Open Data Standards Content Types
- Popolo-spec Content types https://github.com/Sinar/popolo.contenttypes
- OCDS Content types https://github.com/Sinar/ocds.contenttypes
- Open Ownership Content Types https://github.com/Sinar/politikus.bods
Issue Tracking and Relations
Requirements for ubuntu can be installed
sudo xargs -a ubuntu-pkg.list apt install
This buildout script will automatically build the application server and database.
Recommended to install virtualenv python environment for some custom packages
virtualenv python-plone
source python-plone/bin/activate
pip install zc.buildout plonecli
In directory of this checked out repository with virtualenv activated
buildout -vv
After a successful buildout:
To start database:
bin/zeoserver start
To start application server in debug mode:
bin/instance fg
The application server will be accessible at http://localhost:8080
With an option to Create a new Plone site.
In Plone Add-on configuration screen, install
plone.restapi politikus.contenttypes ocds.contenttypes politikus.bods popolo.contenttypes politikus.theme
optional for document previews and text indexing:
Doccument Viewer
- Khairil Yusof khairil.yusof@sinarproject.org
- Justine Pepin
This project is funded and supported by Hivos East Africa, and indirectly via International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada.
With additional support and contributions from Nation Media Group, Alternatives, (Montreal) and the kind individual contributors to Sinar Project.
Also this project would not be possible without all the great people working on open data standards of Popolo-spec, Open Contracting Data Standard, Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and COST IDS