On Feb 2, 2008 4:51 PM, Karl O. Pinc <kop@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > The Kenya National Commission for Human Rights is investigating > the violence in Kenya. This has led to an urgent request on Groklaw > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080202013451629 > for assistance in setting up a database. > > I have suggested that a suite of PostgreSQL based tools might > be appropriate. > http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20080202013451629&title=Postgresql%20and%20phpPgAdmin&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=0#c669544 > > If you have any comment on my suggestions, suggestions for > additional or better suited tools, or otherwise > wish to help with such a project please chime in on > groklaw. > > I have not used Postgres Forms and so am not 100% confident > in my proposal. > > Thank you. I hope that discussions are raging *MORE* about what the kinds of functionality actually needed are, notably with respect to - what specific sorts of data needs to be collected - what known correlations there are (which would tend to imply the shape of the DB schema) as THAT sort of detail is what will allow technical choices to become defensible. As it stands, I have no idea whether the tools you suggest are suitable for the requirements, because I really don't know what the requirements are. One thing that I *do* see in browsing the Groklaw discussion is that there seems to be some risk of inconvenient things disappearing, so that it seems likely that part of the design needs to include a regular "escrow" process whereby data is transmitted to a remote (and preferably outside-Kenya) location. That's a requirement - not a technology choice. The longer you can keep attention focused on what is needed, in technology-agnostic terms, the better. -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- assortedly attributed to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Rita Mae Brown, and Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
