Just a quick weekend update to share the latest ParticipateDB developments:
Today, we launched the site’s third main content bucket: references. Here’s how we define the term in the FAQ:
How do you define “references”?
A reference to us is any kind of related information on the web that can provide more context and detail to any of the tools and projects covered on ParticipateDB. For example, this may include but is not limited to: product brochures, white papers, video tutorials, any kind of research, case studies, or interviews.
Because it is a good read and because it is full with mentions of various e-participation tools and projects, we picked a paper titled “Promising Practices In Online Engagement” by Public Agenda’s Center for the Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE) as our first entry to this new section. Plenty more resources will have to be added in the future, but hopefully this illustrates how the site is intended to work.
With the addition of references, the initial data model is pretty much complete and online. The last piece that’s missing now is proper user management before we can move the site into beta (and really start letting more people in).
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