Development of a GIS-based Method of Constructing the Reality of Individual Disaster

－Focusing on the Resources from Disaster Experiences－

Abstract

We focused on a method for constructing the reality of individual disaster experience based on the information available in different resource types such as text data from interviews, photographs, events records, and narratives. At first, we interviewed one victim to clear the character of experiences. It was shown that his talk always referred some multimedia resources, such as document, image, event etc, and that there were relationships between each of the resources. Next, we inputted them to Cross-Media Database and revealed resources' network by their relationships as a new multimedia disaster ethnography method. In the end, an application of participatory Web based system was shown for systematic understanding of disaster processes using resources from individual disaster experiences.