Monday, September 5, 2005

3AM Central 9/5/2005. 10,000 records entered. Great Work!

3AM Central 9/5/2005. 10,000 records entered. Great Work!

The Katrina PeopleFinder Project is creating a central repository for all refugee records on the web.

Two main efforts are:
(1) VOLUNTEER
http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer
Massively parallel volunteer data entry of refugee records into a central repository, conforming to the PeopleFinder Interchange Format (PFIF).
(2) TECH
http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderTech
Volunteer techies effort to publish the PeopleFinder Interchange Format (PFIF) and collect data from refugee databases across the web.

Great work!

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