Jerry SheehanCalifornia Institute for Telecommunications

and Information Technology@UCSD

January 10, 2008Mayor’s Office Meeting with PIOs

What is the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)

•One of four Institutes for Science and Innovation funded by the State focused on developing and applying advanced technologies to the needs of California citizens

•One Institute, Two Campuses: University of California at San Diego (Lead Campus) and the University of California at Irvine.

•Quick Statistical Statistics-300 Faculty from 24 departments-330 Federal “peer reviewed” grants totaling $330 M-130 Industrial Partners, 75 of whom have provided

Responding to Crisis and Unexpected Events (RESCUE)

•Largest Information Technology Research Award made by the National Science Foundation in 2003.

•4 year, $12.5M

•Goal of the research efforts is to radically transform the ability of responding organizations to gather, manage, use, and disseminate information within emergency response networks and to the general public.

Crisis Produce An Explosion of On Line Information

Hurricane Katrina

August 29, 2005

But...Digital Information Disappears Quickly

2005 2007

Crisis Communication: Information Explosion Followed by Intense Consumption

The SDFire07 Digital Repository

‣Create a digital repository for content created during the October 07 Fires.

‣Why Create a Repository?:

๏Preservation of the experience.

๏Derivative academic research.

๏Potential artistic exploration.

Complex Information Ecosystem

The SDFire07 Framework‣ Initial population of data but

open framework.

‣Host or link to digital assets.

๏Creative Commons License For Repository.

- Attribution-Noncommerical-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

‣Associate metadata with assets.

๏Possibility to try to discern disaster ontology.

‣Registered Domain

๏sdfire07.org

Initial Content Supporters

‣ Formal Information Sources: ๏ KPBS

๏ Union Tribune

‣ Informal Sources: ๏ Individual Photographers

๏ Individual Bloggers

‣ Technology Creators

๏ Google

Contact Information

Jerry Sheehan

Email: jerry@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858.534.1723

YahooIM: Calit2js