empathi: An ontology for Emergency Managing and Planning about Hazard Crisis

TL;DR

The paper introduces empathi, an ontology designed to unify and conceptualize diverse information sources for emergency management during hazard crises, enhancing situational awareness.

Contribution

It presents a novel, coarse-grained ontology that captures essential concepts and relations in emergency management for hazard crises.

Findings

Provides a structured ontology accessible online

Facilitates integration of heterogeneous data sources

Supports improved situational awareness in emergencies

Abstract

In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and integrating information from sources such as satellite images, local sensors and social media content generated by local people. A bold obstacle to capturing, representing and integrating such heterogeneous and diverse information is lack of a proper ontology which properly conceptualizes this domain, aggregates and unifies datasets. Thus, in this paper, we introduce empathi ontology which conceptualizes the core concepts concerning with the domain of emergency managing and planning of hazard crises. Although empathi has a coarse-grained view, it considers the necessary concepts and relations being essential in this domain. This ontology is available at https://w3id.org/empathi/.