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1. The Standby Volunteer Task Force
Data Curation for South Sudan
Svend-Jonas Schelhorn
Student @ University of Heidelberg/ Germany
shornjonas@googlemail.com
@shornjonas
Geographer, Crisis Mapper
2. Background
● Launched at the ICCM 2010 in Boston
● Online Community for Live Crisis Mapping and
crowdsourced data collection
● Nearly 900 members from all over the world
● Decentralized horizontal network of volunteers
acting on the base of a code of conduct
● Working with Open and Volunteered Data
● Partner with Ushahidi, Tomnod, Crisistracker
● Part of Digital Humanitarian Network
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
3. The Task
***Official: Immediate UN Activation of SBTF for South Sudan!***
03.07.2012
● OCHA is deploying a team to South Sudan
● Need of data so they can make informed decisions during their field
mission
● Analyze the impact of emergencies on the population of South Sudan
● Collect secondary data (ie, information obtainable from the Internet)
which is essential to provide the team with targeted and effective
assistance to those in need.
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
4. The Task
Key Questions:
● Population ● Searching pre-selected
● Displacement sources
● Returnees
● Search the Internet
● Refugees
● Security incidents ● Consider date and source of
● Schools publication
● Water sources ● Search for data regarding key
● Health facilities question and State
● Economic constraints
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
5. Data Curation for Disaster Preparedness
Data Curation Mapping the Data
● 1767 unique rows of data
● 15,271 unique pieces of
information records
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
6. Data Curation for Disaster Preparedness
Data Curation Mapping the Data
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Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
7. Mapping the Data - Approach
Phase I: Search for mapping-options in data-entries
Phase II: Create geodata and geodatabase
Phase III: Mapping, Spatio-temporal analysis, graphs, ...
Training for SBTF - Volunteers
Supporting UN OCHA in South Sudan
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
8. Mapping the Data - Tools
For Coordination For Mapping
● Skype ● Googledocs
● Googledocs ● ArcGIS
● SBTF Ning Page ● Quantum GIS
● Online-Mapping-Tools
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
9. Conclusions & Pending Tasks
● Volunteers created > 400 data entries
● Keep it short and simple
● Meeting the Customer's needs?
● Evaluation of volunteer activities
● Building geodatabase and Mapping the data
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
10. Ongoing and Upcoming Activities
● Data curation for South Sudan
●
Crisis Tracker test run (September 7-14th)
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
11. The Standby Volunteer Task Force
Our answer?
STANDBY TASK FORCE
To become a member apply at
http://blog.standbytaskforce.com
or contact join@standbytaskforce.com
And follow us on Twitter: @SBTaskForce
Svend Schelhorn @shornjonas || Data Curation for South Sudan - SBTF || ISCRAM Summerschool 2012 || 22-08-2012
