CODATA, The Committee on Data for Science and Technology

In-depth analysis of the current state of disaster scientific data management and acquisition patterns indicates a great need for interconnection of dispersed scientific data related to disaster risk assessment and mitigation. Today, large amounts of disaster related scientific data exist, such as data from monitoring equipment, base maps, evaluation, progress, socio-economic statistics, and so on. They are typically dispersed geographically and owned by various government agencies, research centres, groups and, sometimes, individuals around the world. Task group of LODGD will study the mechanism for connecting such data to enable easier and faster discovery and access, and significantly reduce the barriers that researchers are facing today due to limited interconnection of various disaster-related data. The task group will research on a unified data query and retrieval method by attributes of disaster events in response to research need for data and information related to past disaster events. As live demonstration, the LODGD will push forward to setup a regional or global metadata discovery infrastructure of disaster related scientific data for a selected set of important past disaster events.

LODGD TG has a team with following 10 members. Three co-chairs are nominated to be considered by CODATA : Guoqing Li (CEODE), Michael Rast (ESA), and IRDR-DATA (Angelika Wirtz and Susan CUTTER).

Name	Institute	Experience and Background
Guoqing Li (Co-Chair)	Centre for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, China	Extensive knowledge and experience with remote sensing, spatial data infrastructure and disaster data management. Long time service in international organizations, such as CEOS, GEOSS, APN and ICSU.
Shuichi Iwata	University of Tokyo, Japan	Extensive knowledge and experience with scientific data policy and CODATA affair. Former president of CODATA and a member of the CODATA disaster data working group.
Chuang Liu	Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, China	Extensive knowledge and experience on geographic and data science. Long time service in international organizations, including UNGAID, CODATA and CEOS. The winner of the CODATA prize. Former member of the CODATA disaster data working group.
Dr. Jan Eichner (Co-Chair)	Geo Risks Research, Munich Re, Germany	Extensive knowledge and experience in global disaster risk research and dataset management. Serving as Co-Chair of the IRDR DATA Working Group.
Jiahua Pan	Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies , CASS, China	Extensive knowledge and experience on world economy and environmental and natural resource economics research. Long time services on IPCC and UNDP, etc
Pakorn Apaphant	GISTDA Thailand	Extensive knowledge and experience with remote sensing and disaster information analysis. Former chair of CEOS/WGISS, and leader of ASEN disaster network project.
Michael Rast (Co-Chair)	European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN)	Extensive knowledge and experience with data sharing and leader of a number of EU activities to support Supersite.
Jan-Ming Ho	Division of Planning and Evaluation, National Science Council of Taipei	Extensive knowledge and experience on digital library and archive technologies. Representative of IRDR IOC in Taipei of city disaster research.
Carol Song	Rosen Centre for Advance Computing, Purdue University, US	Extensive knowledge and experience with cyber infrastructure technology and information systems. Chair of XSEDE Service Provider Forum (NSF), and leading several data centric research projects (drought information network, climate change impact on agriculture, GEOSHARE, etc).
Susan L. Cutter (Co-Chair)	Hazard & Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina, SC 29208, USA	Serving as Co-Chair of the IRDR DATA Working Group.

Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD)