Katrina PeopleFinder Project
From Katrina Help Info
Search records at www.katrinalist.net
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Find Your Loved One
Search records at www.katrinalist.net Search 640,000 + survivor records at once.
How can I help?
There are five main efforts going on:
- PeopleFinderVolunteer - volunteer effort to input unstructured data by hand
- PeopleFinderTech - automate data interchange between survivor databases
- ShelterFinder -- project gathering shelters and shelter contact info
- PeopleFinderOutreach-- outreach/marketing and press information about the project
- PeopleFinderFundingPlan-- a plan to explain the value of this project and pursue funding to build out these tools and services.
If you're helping build this set of pages about the project, please read the Talk:Katrina PeopleFinder Project before proceeding.
What's going on?
Several dozen sites have been established to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina find their loved ones, and to allow people to report missing people. This creates a difficulty for people trying to locate missing persons - they need to search dozens of separate databases and message forums.
This project is a centralized repository, where you can search the data from all of these at one time. To search click here (http://www.katrinalist.net/)
For a high-level overview of this project's status, visit the People Finder Coordination page.
How is this happening?
Data has been collected from unstructured forum posts by the volunteer data entry crew here, and "scraped" from more structured databases by volunteer programmers.
Salesforce.com (http://www.salesforce.com) is providing the data repository as well as a website (http://www.katrinalist.net/) to search, enter new records, and upload PFIF documents. An outbound PFIF feed from the repository will also be available. These features will be rolled out in phases to speed delivery time.
Who is doing it?
Where can I get help?
- The email address for project help has been disabled.
