« "Katrina scenario did not exist" | Main | Michael who? » Katrina PeopleFinder ProjectA distributed group from within the tech community is working on a project to gather unstructured data from various missing and found persons lists in a large structured database that'll be more useful in tracking Katrina survivors who are spreading in many directions from Louisiana and Mississippi. Ethan Zuckerman posts about the project here and here. David Geilhufe of Social Source Foundation is leading the charge, along; other organizations involved are Salesforce.com and CivicSpace. Ethan's been taking responsibility for chunking data sources and adding them to the KatrinaHelp wiki's PeopleFinderVolunteer page. I've been coordinating data entry. If you want to help, all the info you need is on the volunteer page. It's a daunting project, but I just heard we've entered 15,200 records in less than 24 hours! jon posted this at 11:13 AM |
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