Data Migrations

Social media platforms offer a rich repository of crowdsourced information that has the potential to monitor human rights violations. The challenge is quantify, interpret, and situate such unstructured data streams in broader context, which remains under-investigated existing CSCW research. Addressing these challenges demands computational solutions extract large volumes conjunction with intervention transition into offline context render them usable actionable. Following an iterative human-in-the-loop approach, we explore whether citizen reports abductions concentrated on Facebook groups can be useful complete official records ongoing crisis disappearances Mexico. We conceptualize three key practices process transitioning from online offline, followed by seven qualitative characteristics contribute each stage process. Our research contributes initial understanding opportunities migrating local knowledge communities used as evidence organizations seeking address institutional failures.