[Web4lib] FW: Katrina

[Edward Vielmetti]

With all this dupication of effort that's
not entirely surprising.  A lot of the little
sites are collecting around a particular
community rather than the whole of
the problem.

There are standards efforts that got
rolled into place almost immediately -
the People Finder Information Format
at http://zesty.ca/pfif/ consolidated a 
lot of people's thinking about what 
info you needed to collect and how
to store it and exchange it in a standard
format.  

This drives home the point to me that if
your family doesn't have a designated
far-away rendezvous point for emergency
evacuations, it probably should.  On the
other hand if 4 generations of your family
are all in the same place you might have
a real hard time finding a place where you
can go with everyone.

On 9/8/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> I know about the missing persons databases. My point is the duplication of
> effort and how that makes the process harder on everyone.
> 
> Karen G. Schneider
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Avrum Shepard [mailto:ashepard at well.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:25 PM
> > To: kgs at bluehighways.com; 'Web4Lib'
> > Subject: Re: [Web4lib] FW: Katrina
> >
> >
> > http://www.nola.com/
> > There's also a database on the home page of the New Orleans
> > Time-Picayunne newspaper.
> > Avrum
> >
> > At 11:45 AM 9/8/2005, K.G. Schneider wrote:
> >
> > >Fyi, per our earlier discussion... also, there IS such a project but it
> > >seems to have hit a wall:
> > >
> > >http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer
> > >
> > >Karen G. Schneider
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From:
> > >Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:31 AM
> > >To: Karen Schneider (E-mail)
> > >Subject: Katrina
> > >
> > >
> > >Don't you think this is something that the librarians of the world could
> > set
> > >up?
> > >
> > >A central depository of information to keep track of missing and found
> > >people?
> > >
> > >http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/08/katrina.data.ap/index.html
> > >
> > >I'd trust youse guys to do it right.
> > >
> > >Dinah
> > >
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