I’m very pleased to announce that the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has joined the DocumentCloud project. We’re the first first Canadian j-school to sign up for the project designed to help share, find and deal with the mounds of documents that investigative reporters unearth. I discussed working together with project co-founder Aron Pilhofer, and editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times, at the ONA conference last

In a session on data at the Online News Association conference, Aron Pilhofer of the The New York Times, gave a detailed look at DocumentCloud. The project is intended to help present, share, find and deal with mounds of documents that investigative reporters unearth. DocumentCloud considers documents as data but attempts to put some structure around these.  The aim is to have an analytical tool to process documents and make