DocumentCloud

DocumentCloud is an open-sourcesoftware as a serviceplatform that allows users to upload, analyze, annotate, collaborate on and publish primary source documents. Since its launch in 2009, it has been used primarily by journalists to find information in the documents they gather in the course of their reporting and, in the interests of transparency, publish the documents. As of May 2023, DocumentCloud users had uploaded more than 5 million documents.^[3]

DocumentCloud's development has led to the creation of several notable open-source projects, including Backbone.js,^[4] Jammit and Underscore.js.^[5][6] The majority of funding for DocumentCloud has come from grants by the Knight Foundation.

In 2009, journalists Scott Klein and Eric Umansky of ProPublica and Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times received a Knight News Challenge grant for initial development of the platform.^{[7][8][9][10]} This first version of the DocumentCloud was built by the New York Times Digital team and included Elliott Malkin and Sascha Mombartz working on design and development by Jeremy Ashkenas, Ben Koski and Jake Harris.^[11]Jeremy Ashkenas joined as lead developer, and DocumentCloud was incorporated as a nonprofit organization. By September 2009, two dozen media outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune had signed on as beta testers.^[12]

A public beta was announced^[13] at the 2010 NICAR conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and within a year contributing news organizations had uploaded 1 million pages.^[14]

En 2011, DocumentCloud recibió una segunda subvención del Knight News Challenge, ^{[ 15 ]} disolvió su propia entidad sin fines de lucro y se fusionó con la organización sin fines de lucro Investigative Reporters and Editors. ^{[ 16 ] [ 17 ]} Desde entonces, IRE ha asumido la responsabilidad principal del mantenimiento y desarrollo de la plataforma, así como de la gestión de sus fondos de subvención.

DocumentCloud recibió una tercera beca Knight en el verano de 2014, con objetivos principales que incluían mejorar la estabilidad de la plataforma, nuevas funciones y desarrollar un plan para la sostenibilidad financiera. ^{[ 18 ]} Desde su inicio, las cuentas de DocumentCloud han sido gratuitas para las organizaciones periodísticas, pero la organización ha anunciado que implementará un modelo de pago. ^{[ 19 ]}

El 11 de junio de 2018, DocumentCloud y MuckRock anunciaron su fusión. ^{[ 20 ]}

• El potencial de DocumentCloud fuera del periodismo. Blog de ProfHacker en The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Introducción a DocumentCloud de la Fundación Sunlight
• Entrevista con Aron Pilhofer, cofundador de DocumentCloud, realizada por Online Journalism Review.
• Entrada de la enciclopedia de Neiman Lab para DocumentCloud

• Sitio web oficial