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The people involved in the different stages of the documentation process and the
access permissions they will have.
In order to visualize your needs and better understand its implications for the database we
strongly recommend you to list the questions you will ask the database and the graphs or
visualizations you would like to obtain. Here we include some examples of different outputs
you can get from your database:
Example 2: Timeline
This visualization allows an organized analysis of the most relevant milestones of the
judicial case by time References.
White shows that the complaint is issued or presented in front of the court; pink represents
admissibility reports; green for merits report; orange for hearings; purple for orders of the
court; and green with the court hammer for judgements.
How to organise your data?
In the next section you will learn where to look to get the information you need to build
your data model, which is the way you will organise your data in your database.
Then, we will explain the components of the data model and we will illustrate some of the
purposes shared by most human rights organizations with different data model examples.
Finally, we will expose some ideas that you should consider before implementing your
model.
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