Linked data in disaster mitigation and preparedness

Abstract

The development of information systems which simulate disaster preparedness and mitigation activities requires integration of large amount of data from different diversified data sources. The goal of our work is to provide an effective way to integrate such different, distributed data sources that would bring them into a standardized and exchangeable common data format and then to publish them as Linked Open Data (LOD). We describe different sets of published data sources and how they are interconnected with other sources in the LOD cloud in order to develop an information system which simulates disaster mitigation processes. Examples are provided in order to demonstrate the benefits of this system to vulnerable people and emergency management teams as well as other organizations involved in disaster management. © 2011 IEEE.