Here are some of the skills members of our team have, and want to put at your disposal for managing your own data:

• Data Aggregation from Multiple Sources and Formats
  We have already started the process of contacting the numerous websites which host "Survivor Registries", "Safe Lists", and other means of re-connecting disaster victims, and are bringing all their data into one common format and location.
  
  We can also bring in data collected by your relief organization and collate it with other data we have collected, making a central source for dissemination information back to you and other orgs, as well as a create central the public can rely on to have the most complete data available.
   
• Notification of Individuals Based on Data Cross-Referencing
  We have created the infrastructure and software to automatically notify (via email) people who have active "searches".
  
  As we bring your MSP data into the project, it will be cross referenced with existing data, and searchers already in the project who match safe persons in your data will be notified. In addition, if we receiver searcher data from you we can notify them of the status of any individuals who have been entered into the Project from other data sources.
  
  Finally, if you have data on both searchers and safe persons, but no method in place to match or notify them, we can provide this functionality for you.
   

• Data Normalization & Cleaning
  After gathering data from various sources, we abstract certain elements of it to aid in organization, searching, and sorting. If your organization has "dirty" data, we can bring it into a more usable standard format for you and assist you in utilizing it effectively.
   

• Address Standardization
  One of the most important parts of cross-referencing and matching contact data is the standardization of addresses.
  
  Donated services from Intelligent Search Technology and the experience of the KDP Team allow us to "clean" addresses into the a standard format, turning text-data typed by users into data elements which make matching and cross referencing more accurate and effective. This allows the Data Project to be an accurate, easy-to-use resource for matching searchers to safe persons.
   

• "Fuzzy" Demographic Matching
  We have developed algorithms which allows us to generate high match rates while maintaining a high degree of match confidence. Our cross-referencing system makes searching much easier on public users by automatically performing partial matches across multiple possible field mappings. Instead of trying to search 50 times, the user enters their criteria once, and the system performs 50 searches for them, bringing back the most relevant results.
  
  This same system is applied to bulk data as it is loaded into the project.
   

• Record De-Duplication
  Another critical aspect of data management is the removal of duplicate records... without the loss of valid records. Our team has experience dealing with large contact and demographic data sets merged from multiple sources where duplication is a given, and merging together duplicate records to ensure the most complete set of data for each record is created and retained.
   

• Mobile Data Management
  Our team has already begun work on a mobile application to access The Project's data which can be accessed from any internet-enabled phone or PDA.