What happens when you want to find answers to save lives in the future?

After spending half my childhood in New York City, like many, I was hollow and spinning after 9/11.  While working with DIgimarc I formulated concepts that took crowdsourced metadata from digital photographs to help FEMA-NIST formulate the movement of the fire in the World Trade Center. 

Working with groups including Getty Images, Corbis, and the team that opened a makeshift gallery on Prince Street just days after the attack, we were able to build a coalition to create content repositories and metadata schemas that sourced the team at FEMA-NIST with one of the many streams of work they used to protect inhabitants of hi-rise buildings into the future. This concept transformed into a component of the new OSHA standards issued for hi-rise construction.