Information standards for disaster response and recovery
Karen D. Robinson, Renato Iannella · 2006
Effective communication and information management are key aspects of disaster response and recovery, and are prime candidates for ICT support in the form of software such as Crisis Information Management Systems (CIMS). However, such systems are not yet in use today in most of the emergency sector, and uniform adoption of a single CIMS across the many organisations involved in disaster response and recovery is unlikely. Therefore, standards that formalise the semantics of the information, facilitate its exchange between various information systems, and support transformations between one format/presentation to another, are crucial. In this abstract, we provide a brief overview of work on standards for information modelling and exchange in the emergency sector. We cover: