Content Curation World

Overview is a new free tool designed for investigative journalists and researchers interested in finding relevant information within large collections of text documents, from reports to social media tweets.

Overview greatly simplifies the task of analyzing, indexing and visualising large document collections in ways that can allow a journalist to identify relevant patterns and threads across thousands of different documents.

Overview is an open-source document mining system which allows you to upload thousands of documents either in PDF format, via the DocumentCloud or through a CSV spreadsheet file. These documents can be rapidly indexed, sorted and analyzed in order to present an organized visual overview of their contents. 

"Whether you are a journalist starting with thousands of pages of government documents, a reasearcher facing a huge archive, or a social media analyst starting with 100,000 posts, Overview will organize your documents into topics and sub-topics, and then visualize them -- so you can find exactly what you're looking for, instantly count the number of documents in each topic, or tag entire topics for further work."

Free to use. Open-source.

Try it out now: https://www.overviewproject.org/ 

Find out more: https://www.overviewproject.org/help 

Step by step instructions: http://overview.ap.org/blog/2013/11/step-by-step-instructions-for-using-overview/ 

Video overview: http://vimeo.com/71483614 

FAQ: http://overview.ap.org/faq 

The team behind it: http://overview.ap.org/team/ 

Overview is a project of The Associated Press, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight News Challenge.

Overview is the result of the work of Jonathan Stray and Jonas Karlsson

HT Kate Herzog 

Rockpack is a free iOS app for iPhones and iPads which allows you to easily clip and organize together video clips already published online.

Similar to Flipboard and Pinterest, it provides a one-click operation to add any YouTube video to one of your video channels.

Rockpack integrates with Twitter and Facebook and it allows you to follow your favorite channels easily. A browser bookmarklet is also availanle for desktop use.

My comment: A quick way to easily create thematic video channels based on existing published material. Easy to use.

Free to use.

App Store download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/rockpack/id660697542?mt=8&ls=1

Find out more: http://rockpack.com/

FAQ: http://rockpack.com/#/content-providers

freeDive allows anyone to use Google spreadsheets to build searchable databases that can be personalized, curated and published online.

Key features include: 

• Results are presented in an interactive, sortable table 
• Wizard walks you through creating a search widget
• Customize the interface with your filters
• Embed code to publish anywhere 
• Open-source

Free to use.

• Try it out now: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/wizard 
   
• Example: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/example 
   
• Find out more: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/ 
   
• FAQ: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/faq 
   
• Contact info: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/contact/ 

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