We need to start seeing a lot more colla…
We need to start seeing a lot more collaboration amongst the players trying to collect missing persons data. Who has missing persons data?
http://www.facebook.com/DisasterRelief
Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/connect/
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/haiti-missing-people.html
CNN iReport: http://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=381628
ICRC: http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/WFL_HTI.NSF/DocIndex/locate_eng?opendocument
Can we lobby these groups to work towards putting this into the common PFIF (People Finder) format? Put it in a central repository that everyone shares?
Right now most of the independent teams have agreed to merge their info with what Google has created, a Missing Persons Index at: http://haiticrisis.appspot.com This platform has the best ability to aggregate in a common format that can then be used by everyone. Can we get them all working together?
Jacqui Maher 10:23 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink |
Hi, I’m the developer at the NYTimes who works on the missing persons form we have running on our site. I’m working on getting our XML into PFIF now.
Erik Hersman 10:43 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink |
Excellent news Jacqui, this is a great to hear.
Update: Missing Persons Data « Ushahidi Situation Room 12:56 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink |
[...] groups are collaborating on this, including the New York Times who quickly started a process to integrate their data in the right [...]
Pablo Mayrgundter 7:16 am on January 18, 2010 Permalink |
Hey Erik wanted to make sure links were here to our API page and blog:
http://sites.google.com/site/haitireliefwiki/person-finder/service-api
http://googlepersonfinder.blogspot.com/
Thanks for publicizing our efforts!
Erik Hersman 12:11 pm on January 18, 2010 Permalink |
Update: CNN is sharing.
Update: ICRC is talking of sharing, hopefully more from them soon.
Erik Hersman 8:52 pm on January 20, 2010 Permalink |
Update: Facebook is doing all that they can within their own policy guidelines and are helping a great deal by putting up the iframe for the missing persons index internally, then pointing people towards it.