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Family Reunification. During and after a disaster, there are many web sites about family reunification E.g., Yahoo has a list of web sites after Katrina Web: http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp Cached: katrinahelp.htm
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Family Reunification • During and after a disaster, there are many web sites about family reunification • E.g., Yahoo has a list of web sites after Katrina • Web: http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp • Cached: katrinahelp.htm • E.g., American Red Cross also has a list of sites about “contacting loved ones” • Web: http://www.katrinasafe.com/Main.aspx • Cached: redcross-lovedones.html
Existing Services • You can submit a request for the Red Cross to find a person, using a form on their web site • The Red Cross will: • manually look for the person, • manually let you know: • if they find them, and • the person agrees that you can be told that they found them. • Pull-based model, not push, as web sites put up by individuals. • Received information is never broadcast
New Red Cross Safe and Well Service • WASHINGTON, Saturday, July 01, 2006 — A month into the 2006 hurricane season that began on June 1, the American Red Cross is launching the Safe and Well Website to provide families with a tool to exchange welfare information with loved ones and friends in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. • Web: http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_314_5469,00.html • Cached: redcross-new-welfare.html • Web site: https://disastersafe.redcross.org/
KatrinaSafe • http://www.katrinasafe.com/Main.aspx
Yahoo! Katrina Message Boards • http://boards.news.yahoo.com/boards/
Nola.com: Missing Persons • http://www.nola.com/forums/searching/
Family Messages • http://familymessages.org/
Public People Locator • http://www.publicpeoplelocator.com/
MissingKids.com • http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2077 • Excel sheet: • http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/documents/katrina.xls • Cached: katrina.xls
Conclusions • Portal really necessary • IT techniques (data integration, access web forms, data files, etc.) are really needed
System Architecture Search Interface Subscrption Interface Query Engine Centralized DB Data feed Wrapper to query DB behind forms Crawler to retrieve data from web site Module to take message postings Web sites with search forms Users who want to provide data Web sites with crawlable contents