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D5.1 Identification of Social Network Providers and API Design

This deliverable presents the EmerGent Social Media API for continuously gathering data from
various social media services. The document provides a documentation of the functionality
and endpoints for accessing data from different social media services; this includes:

  •  a discussion about selected social media services the API focuses on
  • a discussion of potentials of related technologies and APIs
  • an overall API architecture design
  • the data structure and its representation
  • a technical functionality overview and documentation

For further information please check: Deliverable 5.1

Survey: Potentials of Social media in Emergencies

Our project is guided by practical research: First we want to find out what emergency services really need and what the situation is like at the moment via a very short online survey which will only take 5-10 minutes to complete.

We are interested to know whether you have already had experiences in collaborating with citizens via social media, what problems you have experienced, and what you think the role social media could play in future crisis management. Your input and feedback will guide the development of technical prototypes, which we hope will be of relevance to you and your organization and will be further developed through testing and redevelopment.

Please be reassured that your responses to this survey will be anonymous and treated in strictest confidence, and the results of the survey in anonymized form can be accessed on the project website or emailed to you.

We would be very grateful if you would support us in answering our questions:

Please visit https://www.fp7-emergent.eu/survey/

Successful Project Board Meeting in Catania

EmerGent had a project board meeting in Catania, Italy from 25.08. to 27.08.2014. All project partners discussed first results and are keen to prepare next steps and developments in order to achieve the objectives of EmerGent.

  EMERGENT-Catania-Group-Photo

The EmerGent Team

Successful kick-off meeting

Our new  FP7-SEC project Emergency Management in Social Media Generation (EmerGent)  had a successful kick-off meeting in Paderborn, Germany from 15.04. to 17.04.2014.  Partners from all partner countries came together in order to initiate the work in a project with ambitious objectives.  See the first press article.

The EmerGent team

 

EmerGent on Social Media

EmerGent is now on Twitter and Facebook.