UserDriven.com
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UserDriven
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- UserDriven Disaster Recovery
- "When Katrina struck New Orleans on Monday, August 29, notices began to appear online—on craigslist, on Yahoo, on the Red Cross Web site. But that information was too scattered to be useful. The queries were everywhere—on dozens of sites. So it was almost impossible to report that someone had been located and be guaranteed that the information would reach the people who needed it. On Saturday, September 3, as the catastrophe worsened, a handful of tech-savvy volunteers led by David Geilhufe started gathering data from these sites by "screen scraping," an automated process that involves grabbing the relevant information for each person—name, location, age, and description—and depositing it in a single database. Geilhufe and his team concocted a standardized method of organizing the data, which they called PeopleFinder Interchange Format.
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