Rebecca and DDN friends, With the help of volunteers from Yahoo, we worked together to create a web crawler that have used quite successfully here in Houston. Go to http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp and put a name in the box on the top right of the page. Click "enter" and it will web crawl all of the various databases. Since all the sites are "crawled" we have chosen a very simple site for evacuees to list themselves as survivors or to list loved ones they are looking for. On the list of sites we have aggregated is Family Messages which allows individuals to write extended comments and provide other information in the comments section. We have also aggregated many other tools on the site.
Will -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebecca MacKinnon Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Katrina help! Please donate an hour. Donated money? Please donate a little time. Join the Katrina PeopleFinder Project. It's easy. All you need is an internet connection and the ability to copy data into a form. http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/Help_Needed#Katrina_PeopleFinder_P roject After Katrina many friends and family members have been separated and left with no clear way to find each other. Hundreds of internet web sites are gathering hundreds, and probably thousands, of entries about missing persons or persons who want to let others know they're okay. The problem is: the data on these sites has no particular form or structure. So it's almost impossible for people to search or match things up. Plus there are dozens of sites - making it hard for a person seeking lost loved ones to search them all. The Katrina PeopleFinder Project NEEDS YOUR HELP to enter data about missing and found people from various online sources. We're requesting as little as an hour of your time. All you need to do is help read unstructured posts about missing or found persons, and then add the relevant data to a database through a simple online form. To get started please click here: http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/Help_Needed#Katrina_PeopleFinder_P roject Questions? Email katrina-people (at) activist-tech.org Thanks!!! The Katrina PeopleFinder Team -- Rebecca MacKinnon Research Fellow, Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Society www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org "The world is talking. Are you listening?" Weblog: www.RConversation.com North Korea zone: www.NKzone.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
