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Liquid Investigations is a network infrastructure that makes it easy for anyone to collaboratively research and co-create knowledge. Robust and built from the margins of Europe by journalists and technologists.
Today Liquid is a solid digital infrastructure where you can co-create knowledge by searching and exchanging information between and beyond your institutional boundaries. Using Liquid you can build your research network of choice, adding suitable workflows and governance rules. New collaborative applications will keep popping-up and Liquid is designed to integrate the best of them.
Liquid is an alternative place to migrate away from global centralized platforms offered by large for-profit or non-profit global players.
Digital tools to support team work in the realm of knowledge co-creation, be it for journalism or for any other type of collaborative research, are global centralized platforms, reinforcing world inequalities and leading a wave of global digital colonization. They become governance tools and contributors who depend on them end up being surveilled, controlled and misused by the owners of such digital infrastructures. Currently there is no one-stop shop, free and open source, to offer such an infrastructure.
Liquid is a self-hosted knowledge production platform, allowing users full control over their data.
Currently, the Liquid bundle let’s you index, OCR & search, tagg, build wikis, chat, share files, collaborate on pads and annotations in a self-hosted environment behind a 2FA layer. It’s scalable from cheap hardware up to enterprise grade environments.
Liquid integrates already established and easy to use apps, allowing for a seamless, collaborative workflow. Currently packaged applications:
- Index and Search: Hoover, multi-faceted search technology, creating a bridge between all the other apps
- Wiki: Dokuwiki
- Chat: Rocket.chat
- Share files: Nextcloud
- Pads: CodiMD
- Annotations: Hypothes.is
Follow the Installation page on setting up a working system.
For user documentation go to User Guide.
For installation instructions and technical details go to Technical Overview.
To make it better go to Contributing.
If you want to know what are we working on, each month, go to Tech Team: Monthly Summary
If you want to get in touch with us, send an email to candea [at] eic.network
Liquid Investigations is Free Software under the MIT Licence.
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