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Patrick Ball: Human Rights Through Databases

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 2, 2003 @12:54PM from the it's-not-always-the-other-way-around dept.

wendyg writes "Thought some folks here might be interested in this interview with Patrick Ball, in which he talks about the work he's doing coding human rights violations into databases that can then be used for data mining to bring the perpetrators to book." This story from last October ("Why Human Rights Requires Free Software") mentions Ball's work in this area; this interview adds a broader look at what he's doing and why.

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Re:This is "Onn---Topic?" How? by wendyg · 2003-04-04 03:04 · Score: 2, Informative

YOu can get more details on how he does his work from his pages at shr.aaas.org (I think it is), which have a number of papers and explanations of how they construct the data model.

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