Damage assessment workflow for World Bank

[Chris]

OK - here is precisely what we need to do:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AeHTz41FxK-LZGRka2o5cTRfMmdzZjY1OXo4&hl=en

as part of the World Bank's damage assessment project:
http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Situational_Awareness_and_Damage_Assessment_Information_System

How hard is this to make CCK types and dialogues?

Chris

[Chris]

spent a fair amount of time at the CrisisCamp UI meeting today talking/
whiteboardiing this; I need to spend a few hours to draw it up, and or
time with Kiran, etc to "just do it" in terms of a strawman bundle of
CCK types, roles, and stages of workflow. World Bank and Haitian
government haven't bought into us doing this in Drupal by any means,
but, sure looks like they are still in the brainstorming session. My
sense after a conversation with Stuart Gill was that there is no
framework in place at all right now, and the opportunity to fill that
vacuum exists. Multiple roles, multipe levels of reporting, etc. "How
many buildings? how many miles of roads?" etc, and ultimately "how
much to repair/replace?" per administrative boundary, etc, which we
will get from MINUSTAH, etc, and put in the sptial database.

The other aspect of this is that the JRC (EU Joint research center)
will eventually be doing building-by-building assessments, and also
have decent image processing capabitty. Hopefully one output of this
will be building footprints, as a naturl "container" of information.

So... if you notice the taxonomy, there are very many different
sectors: agriculture, electrical, etc. at various levels of detail.
Output from our simple FLEX widget are pretty granular..need to think
of a way to progressively "upgrade" CCK items as they flow through a
workflow graph with more levels of detail semantically/CCK field item
type. Clearly, the issue of identity is fundamtantal: for buildings in
the US, it would be APN - "Assessor's parcel number" - not sure if
anything like this exists in Haiti. But building footprints are a
good thing to start with...seeking more info.

Again, I would encourage people to look at the links posted above, and
perhaps this as well, the top-tier report of a PDNA:

http://www.pdf.ph/downloads/PDNA/Materials/PDNA%20December%202_2.pdf

Chris

[Chris]

added a strawman architecture block diagram to the wiki:

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/File:PDNA2.png

[Kiran Vaka]

Thanks for adding this architecture diagram. It gives a better "whole" picture.