- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:37:32 +0100
- To: humanitarian-ict@yahoogroups.com, public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
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Thanks Dominic we shall keep this work mind when planning for the future i remember that PFIF had its limitations, but dunno of any work done to address them was not aware that work started in 9/11, I became aware of it during Katrina as back then, i guess its better than nothing, but I look forward to seeing improvements/standardization when the drama has subsided will look into open tasks when I have a mo P 2010/1/17 Dominic König <dominic@nursix.org> > Paola- > > PFIF 1.1 is currently used, I'm pretty sure this is newer than 2006. > However, > to take up PFIF into W3C EIIF I'd suggest to think over the underlying data > model. > > PFIF lacks important elements, especially in view of internationalisation. > It > is very focussed on the 9/11 problem, and on re-unification of families, > but > it could be enhanced to a real Missing Person data exchange format, > provided > that it encodes things like: > > - Gender > - Nationality > - Country of Residence > - Date of Birth > - Identity (e.g. Passport number, etc.) > > Also, the <note> element should provide geospatial attributes (Lat/Lon for > example would serve, see EDXL-DE). > > Additionally, PFIF could incorporate ID Tags, meaning - barcode tag > numbers, > RFID tag numbers (very useful in mass casualty disasters). > > Finally, I suggested to add <body> and <group> top-level elements, to be > able > to exchange tracking/tracing data on other person entities, however - I > have > no perfect draft for these elements right now. My suggested data model is > roughly outlined here: > > http://www.sahanapy.org/wiki/BluePrintVITA > > Finally, the idea is to build a EDXL language extension of it, suggested > was > EDXL-PF (Person Finder). I would be glad to support that. > > Right now we need coders, documentators (!) and translators most. Join > #sahana > on irc.freenode.org to find out more. > > Best regards, > Dominic König > > Den Sunday 17 January 2010 13:56:17 skrev Paola Di Maio: > > Dominic > > thanks for the update > > > > (also Mark, thanks for the report on separate email, looks like neat > > efforts) > > > > re PFIF > > I could not find what version of the schema is being used, is it the same > > as in 2005, or have there been any changes that you know of? > > I am asking cause, among other things, there was an RDF version of it > made > > by peter mika > > > > http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/PositionPaper ( my paper, presented in > > Berlin in 2006 if I remember) > > > > if the RDF is still valid (ie the schema has not changed) maybe it can > > still be used, and tie in with our W3C EIIF efforts > > > > Will try to see if have some hours to help with tasks as per the wiki > > > > Let us know if you need speciiic help with something > > > > > > cheers > > > > PDM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2010/1/17 Dominic König <dominic@nursix.org> > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I really appreciate Google's leadership on providing a central People > > > Finder > > > application for Haiti, especially because their outstanding visibility > > > encourages data entry to only one site, and their ongoing data > collection > > > and > > > consolidation efforts facilitates high quality of data. > > > > > > Moreover, ICRC FamilyLinks and Google People Finder are now connected > > > using the PFIF data transfer, which makes Google's application yet more > > > worthwile. > > > > > > Thus, we all should not try to provide an alternative place of missing > > > person > > > data entry for Haiti, but focus on interoperability. > > > > > > Google's People Finder API (enabled this morning, see > > > http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/developers) makes it possible to > directly > > > fetch and send PFIF data, which works perfectly with SahanaPy. Hence > > > there is > > > now an option to utilise the SahanaPy DVI module with data from the > > > Google repository, in the hope to effectively manage identification of > > > bodies. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Dominic König > > > -- Paola Di Maio ************************************************** “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein **************************************************
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