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Nebraska Integrated Information and Referral Project
This project developed the technological link between propriety software and existing xml standards to enable resource information sharing (locally and nationally). Tools created by this project enable linking disparate resource databases using the market-leading proprietary software. The project identified and resolved semantic conflicts by developing a codified data format structure, and data conflicts by creating data conversion rules and routines. The solutions created were used in a Nebraska statewide pilot (ne211.org, debuted on February 11, 2005) that leveraged information assets already present in disparate state and local databases maintained by public and private organizations. The pilot will provide evaluative and best practices results regarding improved information and referral access: 1) through a consumer-friendly Internet site; 2) by dialing 2-1-1 in certain parts of the state, and 3) through helping organizations.
Key Partners
State: Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department; Nebraska Respite Network (Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services); Panhandle Partnership for Health and Human Services; United Way of the Midlands (host of the 2-1-1 Call/Resource Center)
National: Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS); AIRS XML Data Standards Workgroup; Information and Referral software vendors; Members of the Information and Referral community
Funding
This project was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Commerce Technologies Opportunities Program – National Telecommunication and Information Administration.
Presentations
- 2008 Alliance of Information and Referal Systems (AIRS) Conference Presentation
- 2007 General Presentation
- 2006 AIRS Conference: Sharing Your Data - An Update on Alliance of Information and Referral Systems XML and Helpful Tools
- 2005 AIRS Conference: Sharing Database Resources is Not a Mirage
- 2005 AIRS Conference: National Aging and Disability Symposium Interoperability and Information and Referral
- 2004 AIRS Conference: Resource Database Interoperability: Our Tales And Triumphs Of Working Across Software Products And Agencies To Create Integrated Systems
- 2004 AIRS Conference: Database Interoperability Standards: Update on Approved Standards and Its Implication for Databases and Software Programs
In the News
- Lt. Governor the First to Visit Nebraska 2-1-1 Statewide Website
- October 2003 Press Release from Congressman Tom Osborne's Office
Related Publications:
A Case Study in Data Sharing: 211 Helplink and the AIRS XSD. Cottingham, I., Kutsch, B., & Shank, N. (2008, June 6).
Recommendations on Creating a Statewide Information Resource for Human Services. Real Choice Project Data Team, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. (2003 March). 
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