- WP 1 - Coordination and Management
- WP 2 - Analysis of the crisis management approaches
- WP 3 - Pan European Inventory of events/disasters
- WP 4 - Taxonomy building
- WP 5 - Architecture of Common Information space
- WP 6 - Proof of concept & Validation
- WP 7 - Legal & Ethic aspects
- WP 8 - Dissemination
- WP 9 - Exploitation & Standardisation
WP3
Work package number:
WP3
Work package title:
Pan European Inventory of events/disasters, considering time dimension
Objectives:
The general objectives of this work package is to create a comprehensive, pan-European inventory. In particular, this work package will:
- develop an architecture of the inventory
- design, technically set up and maintain a data base for the inventory and
- integrate the investigated information in the database.
Technical Approach: Development process of EPISECC inventory database
Achievements, Highlights and Key Results of the WP 3
Deliverables
- Del 3.1: Description of method and data sets for the pan-European inventory of disasters – technical requirements for development of the inventory, relevant areas and fields of information
- Del 3.2: Description of the architecture of the pan-European inventory of disasters – Architecture of the inventory, information units on disasters, key indicators, data model, questionnaire
- Del 3.3: Description of the data base for the pan European inventory on disasters
- Del 3.4: Pan European inventory of events/disasters incl. business models
Methodology
Development of the pan-European inventory of events/disasters – Key steps:
- Investigation of existing databases for disaster management suitable for EPISECC purposes
- Identification of fields of information transformed into templates as a pre-step to the inventory and data base
- Definition of technical (public access, security, hardware, database server) and legal requirements (processing personal data, confidentiality) for the inventory
- Identification of inventory components: (a) Disasters, (b) Organisations, processes, measures and used standards and (c) Interoperability
- Selection of Emikat framework used for data acquisition, data representation and data analysis to fill in the inventory with relevant information
- Consultation of selected crisis and disaster management stakeholders on their needs for the content of the inventory
- Definition of the user interface of the questionnaire
- Finalization of online questionnaire allowing interactive interview of stakeholders
- Development of key indicators for interoperability
- Completion of interviews with disaster management stakeholders
- Evaluation of inventory to extract relevant information for improving disaster management
Basic inventory framework
