@inproceedings{pub5355,
    series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 6644},
    abstract = {Disaster management software deals with supporting staff in
large catastrophic incidents such as earthquakes or floods, e.g., by providing
relevant information, facilitating task and resource planning, and
managing communication with all involved parties. In this paper, we introduce
the SoKNOS support system, which is a functional prototype for
such software using semantic technologies for various purposes. Ontologies
are used for creating a mutual understanding between developers
and end users from dierent organizations. Information sources and services
are annotated with ontologies for improving the provision of the
right information at the right time, for connecting existing systems and
databases to the SoKNOS system, and for providing an ontology-based
visualization. Furthermore, the users' actions are constantly supervised,
and errors are avoided by employing ontology-based consistency checking.
We show how the pervasive and holistic use of semantic technologies
leads to a signicant improvement of both the development and the usability
of disaster management software, and present some key lessons
learned from employing semantic technologies in a large-scale software
project.},
    number = {6644},
    edition = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications},
    year = {2011},
    title = {SoKNOS - Using Semantic Technologies in Disaster Management Software},
    booktitle = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2011), 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 29 - June 2, Heraklion, Greece},
    volume = {LNCS},
    pages = {183-197},
    isbn = {978-3-642-21033-4},
    publisher = {Springer},
    author = {Grigori Babitski and Simon Bergweiler and Olaf Grebner and Daniel Oberle and Heiko Paulheim and Florian Probst}
}