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Subject: Fwd: RE: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees


Comments?


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>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:51:11 -0400
>From: "Alan Kotok" <akotok@aaas.org>
>To: <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>, <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
>Cc: <ejones@warningsystems.com>
>Subject: RE: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees
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>Carol, Elysa:
>
>I found an XML specification called People Finder Interchange Format.
>It may be a good complement or addition to the Emergency Management TC.
>This spec is in use at KatrinaList.net (http://katrinalist.net/), a
>project of the Katrina People Finder Project. Best regards.
>
>
>Alan Kotok
>Managing Editor, Science/Next Wave
>akotok@aaas.org
>+1 202-326-8965
>http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/
>
>
> >>> "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> 09/09/05 04:16PM >>>
>Alan,
>The OASIS Emergency Management TC is doing a lot of work that will help
>in the event of future Katrinas. I'm not sure if we have
>anything going on now to address the specific need identified here. It
>does seem like something that could be easily resolved. I'll
>pass this message on to the TC chair.
>
>Best regards,
>Carol
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Kotok [mailto:akotok@aaas.org]
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:19 AM
>To: jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
>Cc: carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
>Subject: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees
>
>Jamie:
>
>The following message was posted yesterday on the Computer Book
>Publishers list-serve, and it points out an immediate serious need
>that OASIS standards may be able to address ...
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:53:56 -0700
>From: Jeffrey Carr <rainieri.carr@gmail.com>
>To: cbp@lists.studiob.com
>Subject: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees
>Message-ID: <5ff3627605090818535d1fa980@mail.gmail.com>
>
>This seems like an obvious solution to an extremely serious problem.
>Thousands of family members are scattered across who knows how many
>evacuation centers in a dozen or more states. All of those
>centers have phone lines, and most have computers. Still, these centers
>are not talking to each other. There's no central archive of
>information on the evacuees.
>Just some informal blogs and some local listings.
>
>I'm not a DBA, but I really don't think that this should be such a
>difficult problem to solve. Any centralized online registration
>process should do the trick. Maybe having Gmail or another free email
>service set up a specialized email identifier. Everyone
>registers with their name, their shelter address, contact info, etc.
>Then create a searchable GUI for registered users.
>
>Is this really that hard to do? Does anyone else here have any ideas on
>how to accomplish it?
>
>Jeff Carr
>Technical Writer
>Instructional Designer
>
>http://metamaps.typepad.com
>http://www.nahualli.com
>
>------------------------------
>
>OASIS's TCs dealing with e-government or emergency management probably
>have the business expertise, which combined with the deep
>technology skills of the members should be able to solve this problem.
>
>This is not an academic issue here ... one my colleagues at Next Wave
>is from New Orleans, and while her immediate family is
>accounted for, a few members of her extended family are still missing.
>Best regards.
>
>
>Alan Kotok
>Managing Editor, Science/Next Wave
>akotok@aaas.org
>+1 202-326-8965
>http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/





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