Role-based Situation-aware Information Seeking and Retrieval for Crisis Response
Nong Chen, Ajantha Dahanayake · 2007
Crisis response is an information intensive process, which produces and consumes large quantities of information from, and for, different relief/response organizations. The traditional centralized IT system design principle dominantly used to address inter- organizational information retrieval over boundaries is no longer feasible due to its lack of flexibility and adaptability to deal with dynamically changing information needs caused by the unpredictable nature of a crisis. In this paper we present our ongoing research regarding a new service architecture for information seeking and retrieval, which offers a new way of thinking about seeking and retrieval of role-based, situation- aware information in the context of a crisis situation. Index terms-Information seeking and retrieval, crisis response, situation awareness