Uwazi
Open-source document and evidence database built by HURIDOCS for human-rights work. glan-bellingcat-methodology uses it as the Justice and Accountability Unit’s analysis database: content is entered as evidence entities that can be grouped (before-and-after satellite imagery, for instance) and linked to a specific incident, and it carries the tags — SGBV, “children visible”, CAAC red flags — that let material be identified and transferred to prosecutorial bodies later.
The tagging is built for handover rather than for search. The manual’s stated reason is that when information sharing with international or prosecutorial bodies happens, tagged incidents “would be easily identified and transferred even if not much other information is available” — giving those bodies leads or supplementary material for cases they are already working. So the database is designed around an event that may never come, and around the possibility that a record will travel with almost none of its context attached.
That is a different design goal from every other tool in this spoke. ironsight optimises for what an analyst can see right now; Uwazi here optimises for what a prosecutor can use years later.
Connections
- analysis database in glan-bellingcat-methodology, used by bellingcat