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Effective coordination and information sharing are vital for the response to sudden onset disasters, and aim at em­powering the responding agencies as well as the affected commu­nities to respond to and recover from the impact of a disas­ter in a well-orchestrated manner. The response to Typhoon Haiyan, however, revealed many organizational and tech­nical obstacles that impeded the efficient retrieval and sharing of information. This paper presents findings from field research that was conducted in the Philippines in De­cember 2013, and outlines approaches to direct future work on standardization and information sharing.

Disaster Management; Decision Makers Information Needs; Ontologies; Field Research; Typhoon Haiyan