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  Erik Hersman 9:47 am on January 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: images (5), missing persons, photos   

  Embeddable Extraordinaries Images 

  The Extraordinaries have finished putting together an embeddable Haiti image grid. This allows it to be used all over the web and extends their reach significantly (see it in action on http://haiti.ushahidi.com).

  You can access it via the URL:

  http://app.beextra.org/appflickr/embed/collectionid/haiti/missionid/605/count/12/title/1/bg/white

  • count - number of photos you want to display in the grid
  • title – title visibility {true, false, 1, 0}
  • bg – optional parameter to change background color {black, white, gray, etc}

  And here’s sample iframe code:

  <iframe src=”http://app.beextra.org/appflickr/embed/collectionid/haiti/missionid/605/count/12/title/1/bg/white” width=”270″ height=”400″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe>

  Here’s an example of it on our site:

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    jongos 5:18 am on January 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    thanks so much for posting this, Erik!

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  Erik Hersman 8:48 am on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google, missing persons   

  Links to the Missing Persons index (API page and blog):

  http://sites.google.com/site/haitireliefwiki/person-finder/service-api

  http://googlepersonfinder.blogspot.com/

   
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  Erik Hersman 12:49 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: aggregation, missing persons, pfif (2)   

  Update: Missing Persons Data 

  There have been many heroic efforts ongoing around Haiti. One of them is the work being done by Tim Schwartz of HaitianQuake.com, Chen Li and the UC Irvine team, Andy Carvin and the PersonFinder group, and Google (among many others) to aggregate this data and put it in a standardized (PFIF) format for use by multiple organizations. Due to their work, there are now 17,000 more entries this morning in the correct format.

  The aggregator is being run by Google at: http://haiticrisis.appspot.com

  Most groups are collaborating on this, including the New York Times who quickly started a process to integrate their data in the right format.

  Some groups are still not sharing their data (CNN iReport and the Red Cross at ICRC). This means a lot of manual labor has been needed to collect and integrate it into the system. For instance, Brian Zimmer has created a system for volunteers to go through CNN iReport data (parsed by Chen’s group) and put the data into Google by hand.

  (Still waiting on information about the Miami Herald and Facebook missing persons data.)

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    Erik Hersman 12:57 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    IF anyone has info on Facebook or Miami Herald data, please update.

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    Erik Hersman 1:57 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Good to see this Tweet:
    @nytimes: We got our Haiti missing people data to Google yesterday. (thanks @jacqui) We can’t silo this info. CNN? http://nyti.ms/4KctdP

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    Erik Hersman 6:37 pm on January 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Update: CNN’s iReport is currently standardizing data for sharing with Google

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  Erik Hersman 10:26 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: images (5), missing persons   

  Just got the JSON export of tagged news imagery operational at http://app.beextra.org/appflickr/haiti

   
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  Erik Hersman 6:16 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: missing persons   

  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?

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    Jacqui Maher 10:23 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    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.

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      Erik Hersman 10:43 pm on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Excellent news Jacqui, this is a great to hear.

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    Pablo Mayrgundter 7:16 am on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    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!

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    Erik Hersman 12:11 pm on January 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Update: CNN is sharing.
    Update: ICRC is talking of sharing, hopefully more from them soon.

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    Erik Hersman 8:52 pm on January 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    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.

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  Erik Hersman 10:45 am on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: images (5), missing persons   

  Ben Rigby of the Extraordinaries update on their missing persons matching images with the news media images. Just got a rough search engine up – that makes use of volunteer tags to slice and dice images from the news at:

  http://app.beextra.org/appflickr/haiti

  This will be integrated into the main missing persons repository at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com run by Google

   
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  Erik Hersman 5:30 am on January 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: missing persons   

  There is now a “missing persons” embed that you can put on your own website, provided by Google. Get it here: http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/embed

  <iframe
  src=”http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/?small=yes”
  width=350 height=300 frameborder=0
  style=”border: dashed 2px #77c”></iframe>

  We should embed this in the map site.

   
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  Erik Hersman 9:58 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  http://www.haitianquake.com

  Updated with translations and images.

  (Google will be taking this over in the morning, US time, as part of the aggregated People Finder/Missing Persons index at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com )

   
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  Erik Hersman 6:38 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  haitianquake.com Missing Persons Index i… 

  haitianquake.com the Missing Persons Index (done by Tim Schwartz and his team)is being politely taken over by Google. Google is using the same design pattern as haitianquake. They have collected 2800+ names into the index thus far. Export formats had already been created for RSS and PFIF.

  Here is the new site: http://haiticrisis.appspot.com

  They are handing over all the data tomorrow morning (US time). The onus is now on the ICRC to open up their data as well.

   
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  Erik Hersman 10:47 pm on January 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: images (5), missing persons   

  The Extraordinaries team has put together a system whereby news/media images can be tagged by ordinary people so they can be more easily matched against the Missing Persons Index. They are working with the http://www.haitianquake.com team to coordinate a joint approach (thank God!).

  Start Here:

  http://app.beextra.org/mission/show/missionid/605

  (more info: http://www.beextra.org/Haiti )

   
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  Erik Hersman 8:21 pm on January 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: index, missing persons, pfif (2)   

  The Missing Persons Index is up at: http://www.haitianquake.com – add to it, help aggregate from other indexes across the web.

  Contact information in the sidebar for that team.