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Getting Disaster Data Right: A Call for Real-time Research in Disaster Response
Steve Peterson
Chris Thompson
Cat Graham
Kees Boersma
Brian Tomaszeski
In the response phase of disasters, minimal research has been conducted on the near real-time operational usage of social media. Research findings during this phase could provide evidence to the emergency management community that social media content can be retrieved, verified, and ultimately utilized in decision-making. This paper discusses potential strategies for conducting future research in near real-time during disasters to gain insightful knowledge rarely captured. Following the April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake, a team of 20 digital volunteers were virtually activated for 48 hours to extract medical-related information from multiple social media platforms and Internet sources. This practitioner insight paper examines methods applied to filter, classify, analyze, verify, and distribute the medical-related information in a timely manner. Association of past research studies are applied to the digital volunteer's experience within a case study framework, calling attention to the feasibility of digital volunteers as an information source in future research.
urn:ISBN:978-0-692-12760-5
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=2157
citekey:StevePeterson_etal2018
citation:Steve Peterson, Chris Thompson, & Cat Graham. (2018). Getting Disaster Data Right: A Call for Real-time Research in Disaster Response. In Kees Boersma, & Brian Tomaszeski (Eds.), ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 851-859). Rochester, NY (USA): Rochester Institute of Technology.
2018
ConferencePaper
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Social media, digital volunteers, data collection and analysis model, human intervention, virtual activation
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/stevepeterson/2018/2157_StevePeterson_etal2018.pdf
Rochester Institute of Technology
English
2411-3387
ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2018
851
859
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