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As emergency first responders and commanders increasingly use mobile phones, tablets, and social media to communicate, coordinate, and manage information during disasters, we see a need and opportunity to provide a mobile device-appropriate semantic layer to a geographically-based common operating picture. The challenge is to provide a simple, usable structure for a rapidly growing body of information to simplify the development of situational awareness in an unfolding disaster. We use a hyperlinked structure based on the ASK model to organize information in a readily accessible form. In this paper we describe our initial design and experience with an Android-based prototype, supported by a Ruby on Rails-based repository service. Our prototype allows the incorporation, aggregation, assessment, and redistribution of dynamic human-generated and sensor-derived information.
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Bareiss, R., Griss, M., Rosenberg, S., Zhang, Y. (2012). Semantic Geotagging: A Location-Based Hypermedia Approach to Creating Situational Awareness. In: Zhang, J.Y., Wilkiewicz, J., Nahapetian, A. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_7
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