Re: [sahana-maindev] Credentialing module

+1 Gavin on that suggestion and good stuff Antonio. It would certainly speed
up the process of adding volunteers/staff and passing around credentials. Is
there any existing standards for this right now?

BTW I am copying the w3c emergency interop group as they might also have
some background on some data exchange standards that might fit this problem.
Sorry for the cross-post.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Gavin Treadgold <gt@kestrel.co.nz> wrote:

> I've just had a chance to look at the demo and I have to say it looks
> really good! Well done! And congratulations on a successful HFOSS
> project!
>
> Once I get Sahana set up on a VM on my home computer, I hope to have a
> more detailed play with it, and I'll test it with some New Zealand
> credentials and certifications to see how it works.
>
> One quick question - it might be nice for an admin to be able to
> export/import the titles/credentials etc. E.g. once I've produced a
> record of titles/credentials for New Zealand, I could then export it
> to a file that any other NZ user could easily import. We could look
> eventually  at deploying these lists with the module, and the admin
> could choose which one(s) to enable. This would help greatly with
> deployment of credential sets across a large number of servers.
>
> Also, I assume that the focus is only on an individuals credentials.
> It would be useful to investigate expanding this to handle groups/
> teams - e.g. response teams have credentials assigned to the team (not
> the individuals) that determine, for example, the types of rescue that
> they can undertake. Of course, this team credentialling builds upon
> individuals credentials within a team. Some of these requirements may
> be calculated by summing individuals credentials - e.g. x individuals
> within the team need to have the abc credential, whilst other team
> requirements may be a certification applied directly to the team, such
> as an certificate authorising the team (not individuals).
>
> Something else to consider as a future option, is to handle the
> importing of individuals and teams credentials. E.g. it would be very
> useful for say an Urban Search and Rescue team to have all their
> individual details, and credentials on a USB key, with documents, and
> enable that to be imported into a Sahana system within the region when
> they report for deployment. If we can export/import via XML or
> similar, then this will greatly speed up the process for managing and
> deploying human resources brought in from outside the affected region.
>
> Good stuff!!
>
> Cheers Gav
>
>
> On 2008-08-02, at 0636, Antonio Alcorn wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We would like to submit for your consideration our first release of
> > the Sahana Credentialing module we have been developing this summer.
> >
> > For those unfamiliar with the term, credentialing is the process of
> > verifying the credentials asserted by personnel. This is important in
> > emergency response and preparedness. If a volunteer signs up and says
> > she is a doctor, the responding organization should verify this before
> > she can prescribe medicine. The goal of the credentialing module is to
> > manage and automate this process.
> >
> > Chamindra put us in contact with Frank Fiedrich, an expert at the
> > Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management at George
> > Washington University. Frank helped us design the system by providing
> > the U.S. Department of Health's credentialing guideline document. The
> > sample data in our demo is based on the U.S. data, but we designed the
> > system to be flexible enough to support any credentialing standard.
> > The titles, certifications and requirements are all editable in the
> > interface.
> >
> > Code: http://summer.hfoss.org/packages/sahana/code/vcs.tar.gz
> > Code documentation: http://summer.hfoss.org/packages/sahana/docs/vcs/
> > Abstract, design, screenshots: http://summer.hfoss.org/Credentialing
> > User guide: http://summer.hfoss.org/Credentialing:User_Guide
> > Demo: http://summer.hfoss.org/packages/sahana/demo/?mod=vcs
> > (username: test; password: abcd1234)
> >
> > We welcome any feedback or questions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > HFOSS Sahana Team
> >
> > Antonio Alcorn
> > Eli Fox-Epstein
> > Dimitar Gochev
> > James Jackson
>
>
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