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Subject: RE: [emergency] Fwd: RE: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees
We (the DM hat this time) were looking at this already: http://zesty.ca/pfif/ But I'll look into the one mentioned below also - this is on the agenda for our Practitioners meeting tomorrow. Thanks, Lee -----Original Message----- From: Elysa Jones [mailto:ejones@warningsystems.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:44 AM To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [emergency] Fwd: RE: Establishing A Centralized Database For Katrina Evacuees Comments? >Delivered-To: ejones@warningsystems.com >X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 >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 >X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/1079/Mon Sep 12 09:23:50 2005 on >magneto.pns.networktel.net >X-Virus-Status: Clean >X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0; #1: 1 >X-NAS-Classification: 0 >X-NAS-MessageID: 51129 >X-NAS-Validation: {4FFF9F5B-0862-47C2-858F-59F6F684AC80} > >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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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