Crisis Interop. Workshop on Missing Person Data

Chamindra de SilvaISCRAM 2011

May 10th 2011, Portugal

Workshop Agenda Introduction to Interop Workshop – Chamindra de Silva The Importance of Missing Person data exchange - Tim Schwartz Brief Introduction to PFIF and interop test session - Ka-Ping Yee Brief intro to participating Systems

National Library of Medicine People Locator - Greg Miernicki/Glenn Pearson (National Library of Medicine)

Sahana Eden - Dominic König (Sahana Eden/AidIQ) Google Person Finder - Ka-Ping Yee (Google Crisis Response) ICRC Family Links

Interop testing for PFIF test case scenario 1 starts - Ka-Ping Yee PFIF standards discussion and feedback for next versions

Driving Problem

Disaster by definition is that which exceeds the capacity of local emergency services

Multiple repositories of information arise rise during disaster due to multiple reasons

Unavailability of appropriate systems Trust and relationship with organization Capacity of organization to respond Spontaneously out of frustration on progress

Essential systems inter-operate for holistic and better response

Purpose of Interop Standards

Objective in Crisis Response Bring about effective information exchange during

crisis to prevent siloed repositories that is of less value to response

Outcomes if done successfully Better efficiency in finding missing people

especially in the critical 72 hours Less time wasted do data re-entry Better collaboration between relief agencies

Why we need crisis interop workshops?

There are a lot of emerging standards in the crisis response domain

Even when mature, the implementations of the standards can be immature

Data exchange standards are not used frequently and only during a crisis event

Interop workshops is a preparedness activity that provide a readiness between systems for data

exchange during a crisis

Interop Workshops itself won't

Resolve intro-organizational legal and trust issues in sharing data

However it will Help better encourage relationships and

contact points between organizations Help develop and enhance standards

when gaps exist

Crisis Information Exchange Areas

Information exchange Problem Area

Standards

Person Data PFIF, vCARD, EDXL-TEP/TEC, FOAF

Alerting CAP, TWML, CWMLHospital Availability EDXL-HAVEGeographic Information Systems

GeoRSS, KML, GML, WFS, WMS

Data Syncronization FeedSync, Tablecast, S3XML

Interop Mechanisms

Interop using Open Standard (OS) Interop using Proprietary Standard (PS) Interop through intermediary system

using standards (IS) Custom mutually agreed web service

(CWS) Database level data exchange (DB)

Approach

Focus on one coordination problem Missing Person Data Exchange

Decision on Standards to be tested PFIF

Prioritized test cases are based on real crisis response scenarios

Testing and validation of data exchange Outcome

Fixes/hacks to compatibility issues A interop compatibility report

This is the inaugural session...

This session will probably have more emphasis on the mechanisms for interop testing crisis data

We will be having more session to cover the remaining areas of missing person and other crisis data interop

Thanks for your participation and support of this goal!