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AliveInfo: A Survivor Confirmation and Management Service Using Institutional Web Portal. Shoji Kajita Associate Professor, Ph.D Information Technology Center Nagoya University Japan. Kyoto. Nagoya. Osaka. 350km. Nagoya University. One of the seven key national universities in Japan
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AliveInfo: A Survivor Confirmation and Management Service Using Institutional Web Portal Shoji KajitaAssociate Professor, Ph.D Information Technology Center Nagoya University Japan
Kyoto Nagoya Osaka 350km Nagoya University • One of the seven key national universities in Japan • About 3,500 faculty & admin. staff • About 16,000 under-graduate & graduate students Tokyo JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
About Me Shoji Kajita, Ph.D Associate Professor Information Technology Center Graduate School of Information Science Nagoya University kajita@nagoya-u.jp JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
About Me Shoji Kajita, Ph.D Strategic Planning Office,Information and Communication Headquarters (THIS WORK) Public Relation Office Student Information System Committee International Academic Consortium Office This work has been done under the collaboration with Disaster Management Office of Nagoya University JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
About Me Shoji Kajita, Ph.D Strategic Planning Office,Information and Communication Headquarters (THIS WORK) Public Relation Office Student Information System Committee International Academic Consortium Office This work has been done under the collaboration with Disaster Management Office of Nagoya University JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
About Me Shoji Kajita, An Information Science Researcher - The constituencies of H.E. institutions have many aspects or roles in H.E. communities, and such H.E. communities are very diverse and interdisciplinary - We may say that such diverse constituencies and communities are a very good example of real human society - Thus H.E. institutions comprise an excellent experimental field to seek the effective use of Information Technology in human society and next-generation IT infrastructure Reality: System Administrator, DBA, Java Programmer, Project Manager, New Project Proposal Writer, …. JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Agenda • Background • Past Big Disasters • What’s Next? • Disaster Management and Recovery Planning • Nagoya University’s Strategy • Learning from Kobe University’s Experiences • AliveInfo • Demonstration • Behind the scene • Experiences in Nagoya University Disaster Drill 2006 • Questions and Answers JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Tell me Tell me cultural differences (if it exists) Tell me your activities or related activities • Wiki: http://www.shojikajita.jp/ • Mail: kajita@nagoya-u.jp JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Background JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
About 150km The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (“Kobe Earthquake”) • A big earthquake with magnitude 7.2 at 5:46 am, January 17th, 1995 • 6,439 dead (including missing person) • 43,792 injured • Estimated Damages: About 10 billion US$ Kobe Nagoya photo from http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/eqb/dlib/eqbdlib-photo.html JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
At about 8:00am, March 20th, 1995 By The Aum Shinrikyo Cult Sarin: Extremely toxic gas used as a chemical weapon Scattered in five subway lines simultaneously 12 dead 5,510 injured Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Recent Disasters • Tokai Rainfall Disaster (2000) • 10 Dead, Evacuation Order: 380,000 in Nagoya City • September 11 (2001) • Hurricane Katrina (2005) • Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami (2005) JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
What’s Next? : Tokai Earthquake • Tokai area (the area of central Japan), a periodical large-scale earthquake with a magnitude of 8 could happen anytime within 10 years • A huge damages including from 9,200 to 4,500 deaths is estimated in the area Tokyo Nagoya Predicted hypocenter Damages: Unpredictable How we can prepare it and recover ASAP? Figure: http://www.bousai.go.jp/jishin/chubou/tou-tai/chousakaihoukoku/houkoku150528.pdf JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Disaster Management and Recovery Planning JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
“Decrease Damages”Nagoya University’s Strategy • Attain Academic Business Continuity • Business = Education and Research Degree of Damage HIT Shorten Just after disaster ResumingPoint Decrease Resume Point Normal Time toresume Time to recover completely Decrease the degree of damage from the aspect of both of human resources and physical properties JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Nagoya University’s Activitiesand Its Current Status • To Decrease Human Resource Damage • Increase the level of anti-earthquake for buildings△ • Anchor furniture and large machines× • Enforce safety regulations on campus△ • Effectively use campus public address system with loud speaker cluster○ • Confirm the degree of damage rapidly ← AliveInfo System× • To Decrease Physical Property Damage • Buildings: reinforcement work or rebuildFurniture and Large Machines: anchar△ • Lifeline: electricity, gas, waterworks, and under-waterworks × • Information Systems× • Information and Communication Infrastructures • Application Systems ○: Already Done△: Currently Performed×: Future Plan JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Nagoya University’s Strategy • To minimize time to resume • Confirming the degree of damage effectively • To make decision to resume education • Confirming the degree of damage for faculty, staff and student reliably • Kobe University took almost two months to confirm the status of constituencies by using surface mail • To confirm reliably • User authentication is mandate • Use of Institutional Web Portal is effective A Survivor Confirmation and Management Service Using Institutional Web Portal JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
AliveInfo JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
AliveInfo • A Survivor Confirmation and Mgmt Service • Not intended to rescue injured people • Intended to get the latest status of constituencies • Started from 2006 August under the collaboration between Disaster Management Office and Strategic Planning Office of Information and Communication Headquarters • Funded by President of Nagoya University • We are now developing prototype system JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
DisasterTab QR Code RelatedLinks Announce-ment JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Three Ways User Authentication Selection AuthN Scheme 1. ID and Password Id Email Address JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Three Ways User Authentication 2. Registered Email Address 3. Anonymous Note: the registered email address can used as registered email address JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
User Confirmation Name Affiliation Position E-Mail Address JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Register AliveInfo Status Contact Information Additional Notes SafeInjuredHeavily InjuredDeadUnknown E-MailTelephone #Location Other Friend InfoNotification To Advisorand son on… JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Confirmation Screen E-Mail Address Telephone # Users Can RegisterTheir Latest InformationAnytime Location Notes JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Simple Search Results (max 3) Specify Conditions Name StartingDate Affiliation Target Attribute LatestStatus Value RegisteredDate Search AuthNMethod JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Administrative Menu Register AliveInfo by Admin Check Registration Status (not implemented yet) Search AliveInfo Make a List of AliveInfo JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Register AliveInfo by Admin Name Affiliation Position E-Mail Address Staff #/Student # JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Search AliveInfo Starting Date Conditions JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Search AliveInfo Registered Date Terminal Info AuthN Method Server Info JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Search AliveInfo JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Make A List of AliveInfo JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Behind The Scene JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Major System Requirements • User Authentication • Using ID and password used in logging in MyNU • Pre-registered e-mail address • Access Devices • PC • Cellar Phone (`KEITAI’) • High Availability • Even if main portal servers are damaged JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
System Architecture https://mynu.jp/k/ DNS Round Robin KUINSKyoto Univ. Campus Network NICENagoya Univ. Campus Network The Internet Accessible Ports: HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VPN ? Nortel Alteon YAMAHA RT YAMAHA RT V210 V210 V210 ldapmaster V210 V210 ApacheTomcat CASLDAP LDAP Replication JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Software Architecture Apache httpd & Tomcat Iframe channel (current) Portlet channel Presentation Aggregator uPortal Apache httpd & Tomcat Web MVC (current) Portlet MVC WebFlow Web App Hibernate ROM • Flows can easily change← easily add new screen to add new info • We don’t have to know the depth of SQL← automatically add column when we add new data in AliveInfo class Oracle 10gRAC (2nodes) JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
What We Learned fromDisaster Drill 2006 JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Nagoya University Annual Disaster Drill 2006 • October 11th, 2006 • 4th (since 2002) • Organizer • Disaster Management Office • Drill • 10:40am “A big earthquake with magnitude 8 class occurred. Please evacuate right now!” • Public Announcement System (A clustered loud speakers on campus) • E-Mail • FAX JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Life Saving Hands-onWorkshop Lecture by Director ofDisaster Mgmt Office Earthquake Experienceby Simulation Car Recovery Planning Workshop(Graduate School of Environmental Studies) Evacuation Route Tour JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
2006 New DrillA Survivor Confirmation and Management Using Nagoya University Portal • Requested: • 1,720 faculty and staff, and 2,643 under-graduate and graduate students belonging in: • School and Graduate School of Economics • School and Graduate School of Agriculture • Graduate School of Environmental Studies • Administration Bureau • Methods • Asked to register PC and Cellar phone-based email addresses prior to the drill • Asked to register their status through both of • Direct request to individuals with PC and Cellar email • Public announcements with email, portal, web pages, poster JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Respondents • 66 faculty, 54 staff, 114 students • Details: JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Q1: How did you know AliveInfo? JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Q2: Is this AliveInfo easy to use? JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Q3: Feature Requests • Automatically notified when registered people’s info is updated (116/234) • Automatically notified to registered people when updated (96/234) • Search by non member of NU (41/234) • Multilingual (0/234) JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Q4: Do you use AliveInfo? JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference
Questions ? Shoji Kajita, Ph.D Associate Professor Information Technology Center Information and Communication Headquarters Graduate School of Information Science Nagoya University kajita@nagoya-u.jp JA-SIG 2006 Winter Conference