FAMILY REUNIFICATION
FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE

Search Interfaces

• Search interfaces for the Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake website:
  • Search Page
    Interactive and error-tolerant search page;
  • Search Widget
    Interactive and error-tolerant search widget that can be embedded into any website.
    
    
• Interactive and error-tolerant search widget for the Red Cross FamilyLinks website.
  
  
• Interactive and error-tolerant search engine for over 40,000 missing person records crawled from Red Cross, CNN iReport and other websites.

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Data (January 2010)

• CNN iReport
  • HTML pages: www.ireport.com.tgz (7,861 files)
  • SQL dump:
    • 2010-01-19: IREPORT_PERSON_88131.sql.gz (604 new records)
    • 2010-01-18: IREPORT_PERSON_86188.sql.gz (952 new records)
    • 2010-01-17: IREPORT_PERSON_83755.sql.gz (659 new records)
    • 2010-01-16: IREPORT_PERSON_64235.sql.gz (5,645 records)
• Family Links International Committee of the Red Cross
  • New Schemata
    • SQL dump (1 table, denormalized):
      • 2010-02-28: ICRC_FAMILYLINKS_2010-02-08_13-55-29.sql.gz (28,034 records)
    • SQL dump (2 tables, normalized):
      • 2010-02-28: ICRC_PEOPLE_2010-02-08_13-55-54.sql.gz (27,401 records)
      • 2010-02-28: ICRC_SEEKER_2010-02-08_13-55-54.sql.gz (28,034 records)
  • Layout after Jan 20
    • SQL dump:
      • 2010-01-21: ICRC_FAMILYLINKS_20100121.sql.gz (23,813 records)
  • Layout before Jan 20
    • HTML pages: www.familylinks.icrc.org.tgz (23,840 files)
    • SQL dump:
      • 2010-01-19: ICRC_PERSON_88131.sql.gz (489 new records)
      • 2010-01-18: ICRC_PERSON_86188.sql.gz (1,034 new records)
      • 2010-01-17: ICRC_PERSON_83755.sql.gz (1,127 new records)
      • 2010-01-16: ICRC_PERSON_64235.sql.gz (21,188 records)
• CBC News
  • SQL dump:
    • 2010-01-18: CBC_PERSON_86188.sql.gz (285 records)
• Koneksyon.com
  • HTML pages: www.koneksyon.com.tgz (4,571 pages)
  • SQL dump:
    • 2010-01-22: KONEKSYON_PERSON_64235.sql.gz (4,571 records)
• Knexu Forum Posts
  • HTML pages: www.knexu.org.tgz (817 files)
  • SQL dump:
    • 2010-01-19: KNEXU_PERSON_88131.sql.gz (816 records)

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People

• Chen Li (Faculty)
  
  
• Sattam Alsubaiee (Student)
• Alexander Behm (Student)
• Inci Cetindil (icetindil ..AT.. gmail.com) (Student)
• Shengyue Ji (Student)
• Dustin Lakin (dustin.lakin ..AT.. gmail.com) (Student)
• Rares Vernica (Student)

Websites powered by our search interfaces

• Haiti Earthquake and Recovery - Miami Herald

In the news

• Helping Haitians find family, February 8, 2010 - University of California, Irvine
• Search Engine Developed to Help Haiti Victims, January 27, 2010 - Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
• UCI aids hunt for missing Haitians, January 16, 2010 - The Orange County Register

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