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Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery

Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery. Oct. 1, 2009 NKOS Workshop, ECDL 2009 Corfu, Greece. Uma Murthy, Edward Fox, Naren Ramakrishnan, Andrea Kavanaugh, Steven Sheetz, Donald Shoemaker, and Venkataraghavan Srinivasan. Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery.

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Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery

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  1. Building an Ontology for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Oct. 1, 2009 NKOS Workshop, ECDL 2009 Corfu, Greece Uma Murthy, Edward Fox, Naren Ramakrishnan, Andrea Kavanaugh, Steven Sheetz, Donald Shoemaker, and Venkataraghavan Srinivasan

  2. Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery • 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

  3. 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

  4. Potential impact • 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

  5. CTR stakeholders

  6. CTR stakeholders

  7. A key part of the CTRnet would be an ontology to help make sense of information as well as connect content, community, and services.

  8. Browsing CTR literature • Searching • Query • expansion Focus groups CTR Ontology • Individual • Organizational • Community • Political • … Tagging Websites, Internet Archive Recommending Summarizing Visualizing Multicultural/ linguistic input An ontology for CTR sources Social network applications uses

  9. 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

  10. Thank you http://www.ctrnet.net

  11. Back-up slides

  12. Preliminary work

  13. Categories from focus group study Results from focus group interviews following the April 16, 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech

  14. CTR keyword pairs from literature Extracted top keyword pairs from ISCRAM proceedings using the N-gram statistics package

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