CNI 2009 Fall Meeting Washington, D.C., 12/14 Crisis , Tragedy, and Recovery Network ( CTRnet )
Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery
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Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and RecoveryOct. 1, 2009NKOS Workshop, ECDL 2009Corfu, Greece
Uma Murthy, Edward Fox, Naren Ramakrishnan, Andrea Kavanaugh, Steven Sheetz, Donald Shoemaker, and Venkataraghavan Srinivasan
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• Human tragedies that result from man-made and natural events affect communities significantly.
• During and after a tragic event, there are a series of needs that have to be addressed.– Usually centered around communication and a
confusing plethora of data and information
Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery
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Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet)
• Build a networked digital library relating to CTR
• Integrate community, content, and services relating to CTR, making it accessible, and preserving it for long-term reuse
• Support information exploration
• Aided by an ontology
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• Help affected communities to recover more quickly and effectively– Global network– Easy accessibility– Relevant information and resources
• Support classes of stakeholders in reacting to and recovering from crises– Researchers– Scholars– Emergency personnel– Decision makers– Public
Potential impact
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CTR stakeholders
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CTR stakeholders
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A key part of the CTRnet would be an ontology to help make sense of information as well as connect content, community, and services.
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An ontology for CTR
Social networkapplications
CTR literature
Focus groups
Websites, Internet Archive
Browsing
SearchingQuery expansion
Visualizing
Tagging
Summarizing
CTR OntologyCTR Ontology• Individual• Organizational• Community• Political• …
Multicultural/ linguistic input
Recommending
sources
uses
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Feedback desired from this NKOS workshop
• Ontology development methodologies and strategies
• Ontology evaluation
• Use of social software and sharing via social groups
• Applicability in diverse cultures and environments
• Related projects, software
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Back-up slides
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Preliminary work
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Categories from focus group study
Results from focus group interviews following the April 16, 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech
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CTR keyword pairs from literature
Extracted top keyword pairs from ISCRAM proceedings using the N-gram statistics package
emergency response
decision support information systems
teams participants
decision making data models disaster monitoring
teams maps
command teams disaster plan crisis management
sms text-message
flood alerts information seeking
situational awareness
disaster registry
physical communication
human disaster teams access decision preference