Towards an Open Information Infrastructure for Disaster Research and Management: Data Management and Information Systems Inside DFNK |
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Authors: | Petra Köhler Joachim Wächter |
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Affiliation: | (1) GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Data Center, Telegrafenberg A3, 14473 Potsdam |
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Abstract: | The development of new and better methods for preventing and managing natural disasters requires a variety of different data sets, covering the range from referenced data, e.g. topographic data and digital elevation models, to various kinds of thematic data, e.g. data about soil, vegetation and land usage as well as monitoring data like precipitation and water levels. So a well-organised data and information management and the implementation of a modern processing environment to acquire, store, analyse and visualise data were decisive for the success of the German Research Network Natural Disasters (DFNK). An information infrastructure was established to support data management and information flows inside the network. A web-based portal offers general information to the public and internal documents, data and software tools to the project community. A catalog service allows the overview of existing but distributed data scombined with flexible data retrieval. Based on internet technology and global standards these concepts contribute to a superior information infrastructure and finally substantiate to the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). SDIs aim is to improve availability and usability of spatial data for the manifold application areas. Disaster management is one field depending on a very high level on high-quality data equipment, and on a working SDI. |
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Keywords: | disaster disaster management information infrastructure Spatial Data Infrastructure data and information management information systems clearinghouse metadata internet technology standards know-how transfer |
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