Notes: This category is to keep track of which person on the "data entry" team is "in charge" of updating a particular facility record. It will hopefully allow updating teams to stay coordinated.

If you are the person that is named as the "Data Updater", then you are the "main contact" for that facility within our CAT database updating team.

If you are NOT the "Data Updater" for a particular facility, then you MUST fully document ALL changes to the facility record that you make. This is so that the Data Updater for that facility can know where the new info came from.

If you are a volunteer that wants to help with a CAT Relief Database updating project, choose "contact" from the top line of this page, and ask Terra for training. You will then be assigned to a manager of a data updating team.

1. DOCUMENT THE CHANGE

In the "Info/Resources" block, put descriptions of changes that are suitable for "the public". If a comment is not suitable for "the public", put your description into "CAT Internal Notes (the yellow block at the bottom).

2. NEVER completely delete any phone numbers, names or addresses. If you get information that suggests that a phone number, name, or address has changed, follow this procedure. Copy the "old" information, and put it under "Other Contacts" and note the date that you put it there. Then you can delete the old info and put in your new info. And then, of course, DOCUMENT THE CHANGE.

3. Old AVAILS/NEEDS: If you are removing old avails/needs, please copy and paste them into "CAT Internal Notes". The reason is that if they needed x in the last disaster, chances are, they will need x in the next disaster. We have found that a relief site often takes on the same Command & Control "role" each time a natural disaster hits in that site's region.