Abstract

Emergency and crisis management professionals work in complex conditions. Information management is a key factor in ensuring the efficiency of their work. In this area of activity we can find numerous requirements for managing real-time information to coordinate the efforts of the different teams involved in these complex scenarios. These requirements include the identification and diffusion of alerts in response to actual or potential crisis, management of and access to logistic and geographical information, etc. This brief overview of some relevant information systems dedicated to emergency and crisis management (ReliefWeb and AlertNet) also addresses the use of open source software tools to organise and manage this information.

Abstract

The Association of Public Andalusian Universities (AUPA) has introduced a portal that offers diverse multimedia content related to cultural events organised by these institutions, and whose objective is to disseminate this rich cultural heritage over the internet. The website, named CaCoCu, allows users to access audio-visual materials such as audio or video recordings, text documents and image galleries related to different themes. This paper describes the architecture of the web portal, taking into account both technological and documentary aspects, as well as the functionality and services that are provided.