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Collaboration Web - Social Computing Technology for Emergency Data Interoperability

Authors:
Aurel Machalek
Dominic Dunlop

Keywords: Collaboration web; Data interoperability; Social computing technologies

Abstract:
This paper discusses the use of social media for data interoperability and sharing between agencies during emergency situations, natural disasters, and disruptions of critical infrastructure. The work presented is ongoing in the context of the Emergency Responders Data Interoperability Network (REDIRNET) research project. The project’s purpose is to provide a decentralized framework for interoperability between emergency agencies’ systems, based on a public meta-data gateway controlled by the agencies through a socio- professional web interface. A major problem during crisis situations is sharing data from various sources between the agencies involved. These data are often heterogeneous and distributed between many organisations with different access rights, and may have little or no security level protection. This paper focuses on the shared platform,which collects information from a variety of sensor nodes and presents it in a user-friendly manner. This is a new approach to using social networks actively in the field of Public Protection and Disaster Relief by addressing the technological challenge through an open-sourced metadata gateway combined with social computing technology.

Pages: 1 to 4

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: May 22, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8459

ISBN: 978-1-61208-481-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 22, 2016 to May 26, 2016