scholarly journals A linked-data based virtual repository for disaster management tools and applications

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Z. Ou ◽  
S. H. Tsai ◽  
Y. A. Lai ◽  
J. Su ◽  
C. W. Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Management Tools

scholarly journals Towards BIM-Enhanced Renovation Management Tools with Support to Stakeholder Interaction

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Seppo Törmä ◽  
Markku Kiviniemi ◽  
Rita Lavikka ◽  
Spiros Kousouris ◽  
Kostas Tsatsakis
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Stakeholder Interaction ◽  
Coordination Tool

This paper presents two renovation management tools that are currently being developed in BIM4EEB project: BIMPlanner—a planning and management tool for housing renovation projects —and BIM4Occupants—a coordination tool between contractors and occupants. An information-sharing layer, based on ontologies and linked data technologies, is an essential technical enabler of these tools. The layer allows data sharing across the different components of the toolkit. The tools aim to enhance information sharing between renovation stakeholders and to enrich BIM data with links to other relevant data in renovation projects.

Social Media for Disaster Awareness and Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-116
Author(s):  
Akhila Manne ◽  
Madhu Bala Myneni
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Awareness Information ◽  
Disaster Management System

Social media has redefined crisis management in the recent years. Extraction of situation awareness information from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. is a non-trivial task once the required framework is established. Unfortunately, most public safety authorities are still suspicious of using social media in engaging and disseminating information. This chapter reports on how social media can be effectively used in the field of emergency management along with the opportunities and challenges put forth. The chapter starts with a discussion on the functions of social media and its trustworthiness. It provides a description of the framework for disaster management system and the methodology to be adopted. The methodology consists of volunteer classification, methods of data collection, challenges faced, event detection, and data characterization with currently available disaster management tools. The chapter concludes with the division between practice and research and moves toward envisioning how social media may be used as a resource in emergency management.

Special Issue on Selected Papers from TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
Keiko Tamura ◽  
Haruo Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Good Industry ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Meaning

TIEMS – The International Emergency Society founded in 1993 – is a global forum for education, training, certification and policy in emergency and disaster management. TIEMS is dedicated to developing a safer world by bringing the benefits of modern emergency management tools, techniques and good industry practice. The Japan Chapter of TIEMS was established in 2011 when Japan members agreed on the great worth of the Society’s mission. The Japan Chapter organized the Oct. 20-23, 2014, TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata. Niigata was chosen because the year 2014 had a special meaning in the history of disasters in Japan. That is, the memorials of four major disasters had memorial anniversaries in that year – the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Niigata Earthquake, the 40th anniversary of the 1974 Niigata Yakeyama Volcano eruption, and the 10th anniversaries of the 2004 Niigata-Fukushima flood and Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake. The event brought over 1,000 domestic and international participants together to discuss risk management and resilience against disasters. The event also provided many opportunities for participants to share their scientific knowledge learn about the lessons from past experience of practitioners in the disaster management field and view the industry exhibition emerging to a wide variety of experience in disaster response. With so many experts and practitioners willing to make presentations at the Conference, the JDR has brought together selected 17 papers and other output from them. My colleagues and I am honored to make these TIEMS 2014 achievements known to the broadest possible audience, and we are assured that this will create many fruitful outcomes for our reading audience.

A learning object ontology repository to support annotation and discovery of educational resources using semantic thesauri

IFLA Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos ◽  
Georgia D. Solomou
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Ontology Repository ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
Object Ontology ◽  
Knowledge Value

Open educational resources are currently becoming increasingly available from a multitude of sources and are consequently annotated in many diverse ways. Interoperability concerns that naturally arise can often be resolved through the semantification of metadata descriptions, while at the same time strengthening the knowledge value of resources. SKOS can be a solid linking point offering a standard vocabulary for thematic descriptions, by referencing semantic thesauri. We propose the enhancement and maintenance of educational resources’ metadata in the form of learning object ontologies and introduce the notion of a learning object ontology repository that can help towards their publication, discovery and reuse. At the same time, linking to thesauri datasets and contextualized sources interrelates learning objects with linked data and exposes them to the Web of Data. We build a set of extensions and workflows on top of contemporary ontology management tools, such as WebProtégé, that can make it suitable as a learning object ontology repository. The proposed approach and implementation can help libraries and universities in discovering, managing and incorporating open educational resources and enhancing current curricula.

scholarly journals A virtual repository for linked-data-based disaster management applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
F.-P. Yang ◽  
Y.Z. Ou ◽  
C.W. Yu ◽  
J. Su ◽  
S.-W. Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Linked Data

Military Involvement in Disaster Preparedness, Organisation, and Disaster Relief — Civilian Military Co-Operation (CIMIC)

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
pp. S25
Author(s):  
Rannveig Bremer Fjær ◽  
Knut Ole Sundnes
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Emergencies ◽  
Military Involvement ◽  
Military Forces

In frequent humanitarian emergencies during the last decades, military forces increasingly have been engaged through provision of equipment and humanitarian assistance, and through peace-support operations. The objective of this study was to evaluate how military resources could be used in disaster preparedness as well as in disaster management and relief.

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