Disaster risk management through the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure
This article provides an overview of the cyberinfrastructure’s role in disaster risk management. It reviews the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure architecture and associated design principles relevant for supporting the disaster risk management community. DesignSafe addresses the challenges of supporting integrative data-driven research in natural hazards engineering. It is an end-to-end data management, communications, and analysis platform where users collect, generate, analyze, curate, and publish large data sets from a variety of sources, including experiments, simulations, field research, and post-disaster reconnaissance.
The potential to enable transformative, multidisciplinary disaster risk research is also discussed while highlighting some of the unique functionalities of the cyberinfrastructure. This article concludes by presenting some case studies, which illustrate the impact of DesignSafe on different segments of the disaster risk management community, and, by inviting discussion on steps forward, the ability of DesignSafe to harness the resources of the cyberinfrastructure for present and future needs.
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