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Google Person Finder is an open source web application that provides a registry and message board for survivors, family, and loved ones affected by a natural disaster to post and search for information about each other's status and whereabouts. It was created by volunteer Google engineers in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Google Person Finder is written in Python and hosted on Google App Engine. Its database and API are based on the People Finder Interchange Format (PFIF) developed in 2005 for the Katrina PeopleFinder Project. ==History== Immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake a group of 20% volunteer engineers developed Person Finder. The software was based on Ka-Ping Yee's work on the (September 11 survivor registry ) and on the PFIF data standard. Google also worked with the United States Department of State to create an embeddable version, which was embedded on the State Department's website and other websites. Google Person Finder launched in English, French, and Haitian Creole on January 15, less than three days after the earthquake. As with previous response efforts to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, many different organizations created sites with lists of missing persons, leading to a concern that information would be scattered across incompatible information silos. Using PFIF, Google Person Finder aggregated the data from many of these sites, including registries run by CNN, the Miami Herald, and the New York Times.〔 Google's work on the Haiti earthquake led to the formation of the Google Crisis Response team,〔 which has launched Google Person Finder again for several subsequent disasters, in many different languages and with a variety of data exchange partners. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Google Person Finder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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