“You can map relationships at scale and unfold the mystery about complex issues
that impact you and your community.” Network mapping has been used as a tool
mostly by social movements to visualize complex relations. With this feature,
network mapping could be labelled a platform of open data which supports
availability of data and access to data, re-use and redistribution of data and universal participation (Open Data Handbook, n.d.).
7.3 The Network Map Project
The problems stated above also affected the project itself. Accessing court cases
was the major problem of the project as they are not available to the public. Experts
participating in the project reached decisions through some law programs and their
network. At the beginning, the project staff expected to reach a large number of
decisions which would give a picture of the situation of environmental cases in
Turkey, but this did not happen due to the difficulty of reaching cases. In order to
cope with this difficulty, the project lawyers wrote a petition to the Council of State
to obtain permission to access the court’s decisions. However, the answer was not
affirmative.
9 Thus, the scope of the network map changed many times and the
project team decided to show the interaction among important cases.
After many workshops within the project group, with academics, press and
activists in different regions of Turkey, a large number of judicial decisions were
gathered for sharing with everyone who needs them, interactive maps were created
to show the relationships between legislation, institutions and concepts that were
basis for reaching those decisions, and a report and a leaflet were produced.
7.3.1 Primary Issues in Network Maps
Even though there will be a more detailed analysis of chosen decisions, there are
some prominent deductions from these decisions. Regarding environmental violation areas, industrial activities, mining, hydroelectric power plants and substructure
and urbanization are identified as the main violation areas. With respect to the
general environmental struggle picture of Turkey thorough the eyes of
Dispossession Networks and Diren Çevre, it is apparent that conflict areas match
the project’s environmental violation areas. The project team hoped that the
systems design, exploring archives, art curating and whatnot.” Available at: https://
graphcommons.com/about.
9
However, it is important to note that the Council of State said that it has been working on a system
which will enable public access to the decisions of the court.
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that impact you and your community.” Network mapping has been used as a tool
mostly by social movements to visualize complex relations. With this feature,
network mapping could be labelled a platform of open data which supports
availability of data and access to data, re-use and redistribution of data and universal participation (Open Data Handbook, n.d.).
7.3 The Network Map Project
The problems stated above also affected the project itself. Accessing court cases
was the major problem of the project as they are not available to the public. Experts
participating in the project reached decisions through some law programs and their
network. At the beginning, the project staff expected to reach a large number of
decisions which would give a picture of the situation of environmental cases in
Turkey, but this did not happen due to the difficulty of reaching cases. In order to
cope with this difficulty, the project lawyers wrote a petition to the Council of State
to obtain permission to access the court’s decisions. However, the answer was not
affirmative.
9 Thus, the scope of the network map changed many times and the
project team decided to show the interaction among important cases.
After many workshops within the project group, with academics, press and
activists in different regions of Turkey, a large number of judicial decisions were
gathered for sharing with everyone who needs them, interactive maps were created
to show the relationships between legislation, institutions and concepts that were
basis for reaching those decisions, and a report and a leaflet were produced.
7.3.1 Primary Issues in Network Maps
Even though there will be a more detailed analysis of chosen decisions, there are
some prominent deductions from these decisions. Regarding environmental violation areas, industrial activities, mining, hydroelectric power plants and substructure
and urbanization are identified as the main violation areas. With respect to the
general environmental struggle picture of Turkey thorough the eyes of
Dispossession Networks and Diren Çevre, it is apparent that conflict areas match
the project’s environmental violation areas. The project team hoped that the
systems design, exploring archives, art curating and whatnot.” Available at: https://
graphcommons.com/about.
9
However, it is important to note that the Council of State said that it has been working on a system
which will enable public access to the decisions of the court.
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