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Hurrican Survivors Data Project

contact: zack at civicspacelabs dot org, AIM: uberzacker

We are working on integrating the various data sets of survivor contact information. We have donated server space from Technorati and engineers from SalesForce.com, CiviCRM, CivicSpace, RadicalDesigns working on the project.

We are looking for help:

• Scraping data from websites
• Normalizing the data sets
• Working on standards for data interchange
• Developing applications to search and manipulate the data

We have a mailinglist. To join email: katrinadev-subscribe@civicspacelabs.org

Resources

Lessons learned from running a survivor database for September 11: http://zesty.ca/pubs/cacm-dec-2001-oeis.pdf .

A sketch of the data record schema is at http://zesty.ca/katrina/ .

A handy Python module for scraping web pages is at http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.py . There is also Beautiful Soup, a Python scraping module. See http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ .

Google Maps of New Orleans now have a new post Katrina view: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans&spn=0.135360,0.240704&t=e&hl=en

This New Orleans history archive has been around since just after Katrina. Somewhat helpful.

Volunteers

Ka-Ping Yee (contact: ping at zesty dot ca, or AIM zestyping).

Jose Nazario (contact: jose at monkey dot org, or AIM nazarijo). Skills: Python, PGSQL, Apache, RSS.