Modelling Context in SafeLink: Online Crisis Management System

Disaster Managing Approaches depends firmly on information and communication management system. A natural disaster, when occurs, requires a high reliable quality of heterogeneous information management system. In this context, important decisions, based on the "perceived" available information, have to be made in extremely short laps of time. Due to the huge, structured and unstructured, on hand "data", the task of getting the "more relevant information" has become real dilemma. In this paper we suggest an Augmented Perception Approach, based on Context Crisis Capturing, to improve the disaster situation perception and consequently enhance the decision quality. Capturing disaster context is essential to retrieve reliable and pertinent information. To build on our own model, our interest has been focused on Context Modelling Approaches and Context Ontology [3]. We have also developed a context capturing approach capable to retrieve the "more appropriate" "contextual" information during a disaster management session