Accounting Scrapbook was some research software I developed and used in my PhD research. I developed it as part of a design process with my research partners and deployed it in two different organisations to understand how charities in the UK could use digital technology to collect and organise data about their work and spending.
The basic premise is that you can use the application to collect various types of information that are useful to charities such as spending data, quotes from people, photos etc. and then tag them quickly. Users can create “scrapbooks” which are basically just collections but the key feature is that scrapbooks can be tagged and that a single item can belong to any number of scrapbooks. This means that a single item of data e.g. a spend or a photo can be rapidly imbued with context which can support later parsing and display by other tools, and support charity workers demonstrating the rich and interlinked context of their daily work.
It supports exporting the data as JSON formatted in the Qualitative Accounting Data Standard and was deployed alongside Rosemary Accounts.