<s>
People	B-Protocol
Finder	I-Protocol
Interchange	I-Protocol
Format	I-Protocol
(	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
)	O
is	O
a	O
widely	O
used	O
open	O
data	O
standard	O
for	O
information	O
about	O
missing	O
or	O
displaced	O
people	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
was	O
designed	O
to	O
enable	O
information	O
sharing	O
among	O
governments	O
,	O
relief	O
organizations	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
survivor	O
registries	O
to	O
help	O
people	O
find	O
and	O
contact	O
their	O
family	O
and	O
friends	O
after	O
a	O
disaster	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
is	O
extended	O
from	O
XML	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
defines	O
the	O
set	O
of	O
fields	O
in	O
these	O
records	O
and	O
an	O
XML-based	O
format	O
to	O
store	O
or	O
transfer	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
XML	B-Protocol
records	O
can	O
be	O
embedded	O
in	O
Atom	B-Application
feeds	I-Application
or	O
RSS	O
feeds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
allows	O
different	O
repositories	O
of	O
missing	O
person	O
data	O
to	O
exchange	O
and	O
aggregate	O
their	O
records	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
large	O
volunteer	O
effort	O
called	O
the	O
Katrina	O
PeopleFinder	O
Project	O
worked	O
to	O
gather	O
and	O
manually	O
re-enter	O
this	O
information	O
into	O
one	O
searchable	O
database	O
provided	O
by	O
Salesforce.com	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Working	O
with	O
Katrina	O
volunteers	O
Kieran	O
Lal	O
and	O
Jonathan	O
Plax	O
and	O
the	O
CiviCRM	B-Language
team	O
,	O
Yee	O
drafted	O
the	O
first	O
specification	O
for	O
People	B-Protocol
Finder	I-Protocol
Interchange	I-Protocol
Format	I-Protocol
,	O
which	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
September	O
4	O
,	O
2005	O
as	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.1	O
,	O
with	O
some	O
small	O
corrections	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
September	O
5	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Salesforce.com	B-Application
database	O
added	O
support	O
for	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
;	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
and	O
Google	B-Application
also	O
launched	O
searchable	O
databases	O
of	O
Katrina	O
survivors	O
that	O
exchanged	O
information	O
using	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
next	O
major	O
use	O
of	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
occurred	O
after	O
the	O
2010	O
Haiti	O
earthquake	O
when	O
Google	B-Application
launched	O
Google	B-Application
Person	I-Application
Finder	I-Application
,	O
which	O
used	O
a	O
data	O
model	O
based	O
on	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
and	O
exchanged	O
data	O
with	O
CNN	B-Architecture
,	O
the	O
New	O
York	O
Times	O
,	O
the	O
National	O
Library	O
of	O
Medicine	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
survivor	O
registries	O
using	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.1	O
had	O
made	O
US-specific	O
assumptions	O
that	O
were	O
not	O
applicable	O
to	O
Haiti	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Released	O
on	O
January	O
26	O
,	O
2010	O
,	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.2	O
added	O
fields	O
for	O
a	O
person	O
's	O
home	O
country	O
and	O
international	O
postal	O
code	O
,	O
and	O
fields	O
for	O
sex	O
,	O
age	O
,	O
date	O
of	O
birth	O
,	O
status	O
,	O
and	O
links	O
between	O
duplicate	O
records	O
for	O
the	O
same	O
person	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.3	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
March	O
2011	O
,	O
addressed	O
the	O
privacy	O
of	O
personal	O
information	O
by	O
adding	O
a	O
field	O
to	O
specify	O
an	O
expiry	O
date	O
on	O
each	O
person	O
record	O
and	O
setting	O
out	O
requirements	O
for	O
data	O
deletion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.3	O
also	O
moved	O
away	O
from	O
the	O
US-specific	O
assumption	O
of	O
a	O
first	O
and	O
last	O
name	O
by	O
adding	O
one	O
field	O
for	O
a	O
person	O
's	O
full	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PFIF	B-Protocol
1.4	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
May	O
2012	O
,	O
renamed	O
the	O
name	O
fields	O
to	O
"	O
given_name	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
last_name	O
"	O
,	O
added	O
a	O
field	O
for	O
alternate	O
names	O
,	O
added	O
a	O
field	O
for	O
linking	O
to	O
personal	O
profiles	O
on	O
other	O
websites	O
,	O
and	O
added	O
support	O
for	O
multiple	O
photos	O
per	O
person	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
websites	O
and	O
software	O
projects	O
implement	O
PFIF	B-Protocol
:	O
</s>
