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Researchers from 樱桃视频 have launched a new multimedia digital tool for journalists, researchers, human rights monitors, and citizens in a digital age to map complex events – such as conflicts, protests, or crises – as they develop.

By collecting data in different media formats, and acting as an advanced data visualisation platform,  enables users to share and collate first-hand reports of events on the ground and to make sense of diffused fragments of information.

PATTRN鈥檚 pilot project was the , an investigative online tool mapping Israeli attacks in Gaza during the conflict of July and August 2014.

Developed by researchers (based within the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths) working with Amnesty International, the Gaza Platform pieced together more than 2,500 individual attacks, revealing patterns: an invaluable resource for human rights investigators pushing for accountability for violations committed during the conflict.

It has since been used to trying to reach Europe from 2010-15, and to during 2015.

Project lead  explains: 鈥淭he principle of PATTRN is simple: everything that happens does so at a given place and time. The tool enables users to build a database of events with space and time coordinates, and to add tags, media, and content to these events. Anyone can contribute data, anonymously.

鈥淚n this digital age we believe PATTRN will be a vital tool for anyone undertaking human rights work.鈥�

The database can then be explored through an online visualisation platform: while a map provides access to the details of each event, interactive charts and filters enable the user to reveal patterns across the data. Together, users of PATTRN can create the big picture of an ongoing situation.

PATTRN is currently in use by organisations such as citizen investigative journalists , the , transparency project , and the . Eliot Higgins, Belingcat founder, has described it as 鈥渢he best conflict mapping tool I鈥檝e seen so far鈥�.

The PATTRN project was initiated thanks to a grant from the , awarded to Goldsmiths鈥� Professor Eyal Weizman.

PATTRN responds to new ways of reporting from the front in the digital age, and will continue to develop. A prototype is , hosted by 樱桃视频, for anyone to access.

Researchers, developers, journalists, or citizens alike 鈥� get involved at