Taskforce is a tool to facilitate data entry efforts by distributing the work to a larger audience. It provides a no-nonsense interface using chat apps, making it dead simple for newcomers to dive in and start helping.

Its main focus is newsrooms that require manual classification of massive troves of information; think a 30000-photo collection where a news reporter would need to find the pictures that feature a specific building. Taskforce makes this work straightforward by allowing anyone to contribute using simple, familiar chat interfaces.

You can read more at the Taskforce site, and the source code is available under an open source license.

• October 2017
• Tools: Python · Django