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What is WikiRate Labs?
A community site for developers to share code, ideas, resources, and feedback on [[Experiment|Experiments]] with WikiRate.org data.
WikiRate.org hosts a community of researchers working to research answers to important questions about corporate impacts.
Covering a broad range of topics, sectors, and companies, there is an enormous wealth of information on the WikiRate platform, which we need to effectively address the intricate web of issues.
But for these data to have the fullest possible impact, they have to reach people who can put them to use.
Communities organized around specific datasets or topics, such as modern slavery, climate change or supply chain transparency, must be able to pull out the questions and answers of interest to them and present them in a form that works for their members.
The WikiRate Labs is an effort to activate all that research by developing and supporting new ways of using that data for analysis, integrations, advocacy, journalism, and beyond.
Experiments
An experiment on WikiRate Labs can be any technical effort to generate something useful from WikiRate data.
WikiRate.org has an open data structure and a RESTful API that facilitates, for instance, widgets -dynamic interfaces that function like a window through which a community can engage with a specific dataset or research topic.
Different types of widgets are possible such as search or data visualizations tools (graphs, charts, maps) and they can be tailored to an audience. The widget developed by Clean Clothes Campaign, for instance, allows users to search for a factory and learn what brands it supplies. Live data comes directly via the WikiRate API.
An experiment must have a public available demo site, a url for open source code, or ideally both.
Check out our current experiments, or add a new one [[ https://labs.wikirate.org/Experiment|here ]] .
Resources
Documentation
API documentation
GitHub Repo
WikiRate.org source code repository on GitHub
A community site for developers to share code, ideas, resources, and feedback on [[Experiment|Experiments]] with WikiRate.org data.
WikiRate.org hosts a community of researchers working to research answers to important questions about corporate impacts.
Covering a broad range of topics, sectors, and companies, there is an enormous wealth of information on the WikiRate platform, which we need to effectively address the intricate web of issues.
But for these data to have the fullest possible impact, they have to reach people who can put them to use.
Communities organized around specific datasets or topics, such as modern slavery, climate change or supply chain transparency, must be able to pull out the questions and answers of interest to them and present them in a form that works for their members.
The WikiRate Labs is an effort to activate all that research by developing and supporting new ways of using that data for analysis, integrations, advocacy, journalism, and beyond.
Experiments
An experiment on WikiRate Labs can be any technical effort to generate something useful from WikiRate data.
WikiRate.org has an open data structure and a RESTful API that facilitates, for instance, widgets -dynamic interfaces that function like a window through which a community can engage with a specific dataset or research topic.
Different types of widgets are possible such as search or data visualizations tools (graphs, charts, maps) and they can be tailored to an audience. The widget developed by Clean Clothes Campaign, for instance, allows users to search for a factory and learn what brands it supplies. Live data comes directly via the WikiRate API.
An experiment must have a public available demo site, a url for open source code, or ideally both.
Check out our current experiments, or add a new one [[ https://labs.wikirate.org/Experiment|here ]] .
Resources
Documentation
API documentation
GitHub Repo
WikiRate.org source code repository on GitHub