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OVD-info Data Profile

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About OVD-info

OVD-info is an independent human rights media project.

Our mission is to collect, provide and analyze data on political repressions in Russia.

Since December 2011 we monitors politically motivated arrests during peaceful assemblies in Russia.

And provide this data to media, human rights organisations and research institutions.

Our website: http://ovdinfo.orgFollow us: @ovdinfo

Data collection

Hot-line +7(495)374-66-75

Monitoring group at work

Crowdsourcing http://ovdinfo.org/detentions

Crowdsourcing http://ovdinfo.org/tell-a-story

Crowdsourcing http://ovdinfo.org/help-yourself

Crowdsourcing http://ovdinfo.org/svidetelstva/form

Social media monitoring (TweetDeck)

Media monitoring

Data-sets

8500 politically motivated arrests at public events:http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2012/report/en, http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2013

Protest events (Date, Place, Type of event, Topics, Organizer, Title, Number of arrests) – 800:http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2012/report/en, http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2013

Storytelling by those arrested – 70: http://ovdinfo.org/stories

Profile on political prisoners – 48: http://ovdinfo.org/persons

Arrests & Events

We publish data in real time (http://ovdinfo.org/express-news)

User can organize news by subjects, dates, regions filters

And by police station, law articles, events and some other tags

All news are linked by events

The process of news creating is standardized

The full story on detention will provide us data both on Event and Arrested people

Event:Date, region, Place, agreement, Type, Subject, Organizer, Description

Arrests:Names, Number, Police station(s), Court verdict (optional)

Presentation of aggregated data

Data visualizationhttp://reports.ovdinfo.org/2012/infographics, http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2013/infographics

Mapping of police and protest placeshttp://reports.ovdinfo.org/2012/geo, http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2013/geo

Open data: CSV and filtershttp://reports.ovdinfo.org/2012/data, http://reports.ovdinfo.org/2013/data

Qualitative data

OVD-info collects stories about detentions and other activists’ repressive experiencehttp://ovdinfo.org/stories

Repression: best practice

Examples of human rights violations

Personal experience

Political prisoners profiles

Detailed Legal & Biographical datahttp://ovdinfo.org/persons

How others use our data

Media

OVD-info is a news agency for mass media

More than 5,000 citation in news outlets

Media monitoring:http://ovdinfo.org/about/media-monitoring

Human rights

Many human rights professionals use our data

ReportsCourt appealsLobbying

Research

Sociology & Politology

Protest studiesPolitical repression studiesPolice&Court studies

How to reuse our data

Download CSV

Data overlay

Data reattribution

Data comparison

Data correlations

Open data & Creative Commons

We collect data for society

Our data is open

Our data is free for redistribution and reuse

Thank you for your attention!

Our website: http://ovdinfo.orgFollow us: @ovdinfo