Apache Superset
Apache Superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence platform that provides rich data visualization and exploration capabilities. It supports a wide variety of visualizations, from simple to complex charts, and allows users to create interactive dashboards. Superset is designed to be intuitive for both technical and non-technical users, making it ideal for sharing insights across diverse stakeholder groups.
CoMapeo
CoMapeo is an offline-first mapping and data collection tool designed specifically for indigenous communities and grassroots organizations. Built with a focus on data sovereignty and community control, CoMapeo allows communities to map their territories, document environmental changes, and collect evidence of environmental impacts without relying on external internet infrastructure.
Common Workflows
Reference information for common tasks that involve Guardian Connector and related tools.
Companion Applications
Documentation for external applications that are useful alongside Guardian Connector but are not themselves part of the Guardian Connector platform or directly integrated into it.
Core Integrations
Guardian Connector is designed to work closely with a small number of external applications that are commonly used within Indigenous community monitoring and data management workflows. These integrations allow data collected or processed in other tools to be brought into Guardian Connector for storage, management, analysis, visualization, and longer-term use.
Data Sharing Protocols Grounded in Indigenous Data Sovereignty
This guide establishes an overview, actionable steps, guiding questions, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) template to support the secure, ethical, and community-driven sharing of Indigenous and local community data.
File Browser
File Browser is a web-based file manager that allows users to browse, upload, download, and share files from their Guardian Connector instance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is Guardian Connector open source?
GC Explorer
Guardian Connector Explorer (GC Explorer) is a web-based data visualization tool that transforms your community's tabular data into interactive maps, galleries, and dashboards. Built specifically for Guardian Connector, it connects directly to your PostgreSQL database to display data collected from tools like CoMapeo, KoboToolbox, and other data collection platforms.
GC Landing Page
The Guardian Connector Landing Page is the home page for your community's Guardian Connector: the front door you arrive at after signing in. It brings everything together in one place, so you don't need to remember web addresses or hunt around for the right tool.
Guardian Connector "User Personas" Explained
Understanding the diverse user personas who interact with Guardian Connector and their varying technical expertise levels
Guiding Questions for Creating a Data Sharing Protocol
This information is adapted from “Technocultural Data Protocols” from Foster & Schonwetter 2024, produced for the Tenure Facility.
Introduction
Welcome to the guides & tutorials section of the Guardian Connector documentation! This section provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance to help Indigenous community organizations make the most of the tools and workflows available across the Guardian Connector ecosystem.
Introduction
This reference section documents the components, concepts, integrations, and technical conventions that make up Guardian Connector. It is intended as a place to look up how different parts of the platform work, how they relate to one another, and the terminology and structures used throughout the system.
KoboToolbox
KoboToolbox is a free, open-source suite of tools for mobile data collection. It allows users to build forms, collect data in the field using mobile devices, and analyze the collected data through web-based interfaces. Originally developed for humanitarian contexts, KoboToolbox excels at creating surveys, questionnaires, and data collection forms that work reliably in challenging environments with limited connectivity.
KoboToolbox: Data Management Syllabus
Overview
Reading List on Indigenous Data Sovereignty
📄 Academic Papers
Sobre o Guardian Connector
O Guardian Connector é uma plataforma gratuita e de código aberto para a soberania de dados indígenas, que permite às comunidades centralizar, acessar e extrair informações de seus dados ambientais e culturais de forma segura. Desenvolvido por meio da colaboração entre comunidades indígenas, a Conservation Metrics e parceiros técnicos, o Guardian Connector aborda os desafios únicos enfrentados pelas comunidades na linha de frente da proteção de seus territórios.
Template: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Data Sharing
Between: [Community or Organization Name]
Timelapse
Timelapse is a specialized software tool designed for analyzing camera trap images and videos in wildlife research and conservation. It provides powerful features for organizing, viewing, and analyzing large collections of wildlife images, including species identification, behavior analysis, and temporal pattern recognition. Designed to be accessible to users without scientific expertise, Timelapse is particularly valuable for long-term wildlife monitoring studies and biodiversity assessments.
Use your data in QGIS
QGIS is a powerful open-source GIS application that can work with spatial data from Guardian Connector. This guide shows you how to download your data and open it in QGIS for analysis and visualization.
Week 1: Introduction to KoboToolbox
🎯 Objectives
Week 2: Managing Surveys and Data in KoboToolbox
🎯 Objectives
Week 3: Data Analysis and Visualization
🎯 Objectives
Week 4: Data Cleaning
🎯 Objectives
Week 5: Final Project
This week is designed to be a culmination of the skills and knowledge you've acquired throughout the program, allowing you to design and execute a complete survey project. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each component: