Journal of Disaster Information Studies
Online ISSN : 2433-7382
Print ISSN : 1348-3609
Development and its Users Evaluation of Two Web Database Systems to Extract and Share Lessons Learned from Earthquake Disasters: “3.11 Lessons Learned Web Database System” and “Earthquake Disaster Literature Web Database System”
Shosuke SATOToru OKAMOTOFumihiko IMAMURA
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2018 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 95-104

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It is important to share lessons learned from disasters for preparedness and effective response in a disaster. This paper aims to evaluate two web database systems to share lessons learned from experiences of the disasters with traffic analysis and monitor survey. The former database system “3.11 Lessons Learned Web Database System” archives and publishes lessons submitted by experts of disaster science. The latter database system “Earthquake Disaster Literature Web Database System” registers lessons based on conclusion described in papers and report related the 2011 event and past earthquake disasters. The results are as follows. 1) Each database system received 200-500 hits a day. 2) Almost monitors of “3.11 Lessons Learned Web Database System” answered good mark on questionnaire items of interest and understandability. 3) Users can easily search with recommended category keywords and disaster event names controlled vocabulary. 4) Between two database systems are established a mutually complementary in point of quantitatively and qualitatively. 5) However, few monitors answered negative evaluation at text representation and web page layout.

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