[LM_NET] Instructions for photographing and documenting hurricane victims

[Andy Carvin <acarvin@EDC.ORG>]

(please circulate widely)

Hi everyone,

For those of you willing to volunteer and photograph evacuees or collect 
photos of the missing from bulletin boards and websites, here are some 
instructions.

If you have a Flickr.com account, upload photos  and tag them either as:

katrinamissing for missing persons;
katrinafound for found persons that were previously missing; or
katrinaokay for all evacuees you encounter so their status can be recorded

No matter their status, please include a second tag: katrinapeople. That 
way we can have a running list of all people encountered.

If you are using a cameraphone to take pictures of people at a shelter,  
or if you don't have a flickr account, you can use these email addresses 
to upload them. Each email address is set up to include the appropriate 
tags automatically.

For Katrina Missing People:
table60said@photos.flickr.com

For Katrina Found People (people previously reported missing):
shall93effort@photos.flickr.com

For Katrina Okay People (ie, people who want to let others know they're 
okay, includes evacuee you can find in person):
wait84little@photos.flickr.com

Collecting Photos and Data

When taking photos, please try to get a head and shoulder in the best 
lighting available so people can make out their features in the photograph.

When collecting information from them, please try to get this minimal 
amount for all three categories:

Full name, including first, middle, last
Gender
Age
Permanent address
Current location
Contact information (shelter phone/email/fax, etc)
Full names and descriptions of people they are looking for

Meanwhile, when collecting information about missing people from 
bulletin boards, the Web or from personal requests from their 
friends/family, try to collect additional information:

Gender
Age
Height
Weight
Physical Description
Where were they last scene and when?
What were they wearing?
Contact information of anyone looking for them

Note: If you find children that are separated from parents/guardians, 
include as much physical descriptive information as you can, as if they 
were missing.

How to access photos

The public will be able to access the photos on Flickr.com, and 
hopefully, other databases.

Found People:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinafound/

Missing People:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinamissing/

Okay People:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrinaokay/

For those of you who use RSS, each one of these has a corresponding RSS 
feed:

Found People RSS:
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinafound&format=rss_200

Missing People RSS:
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinamissing&format=rss_200

Okay People RSS:
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=katrinaokay&format=rss_200

Lastly, I've set up javascripts that you can insert on any webpage to 
display the images as they're posted to Flickr.

Found People Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/DJQBXVAAO6.js"><noscript><a 
href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/DJQBXVAAO6.html">Click for 
&quot;Flickr: Katrina Found&quot;.</a> By <a 
href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script>

Missing People Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/1SWRBL5DN2.js"><noscript><a 
href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/1SWRBL5DN2.html">Click for 
&quot;Flickr: Katrina Missing&quot;.</a> By <a 
href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script>

Okay People Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/BXOZZEMJOY.js"><noscript><a 
href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/BXOZZEMJOY.html">Click for 
&quot;Flickr: Katrina Okay People&quot;.</a> By <a 
href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script>

I'll set up pages on http://katrina05.blogspot.com to display all of 
these photo feeds.

Hopefully this is enough to get volunteers started. So if you have any 
type of access to an evacuee shelter and a digital camera, please help out.

Special thanks to Lars Torres and Katrin Verclas for helping to get this 
organized.

Thanks,
ac

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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.tsunami-info.org
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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