Capturing and labelling the experiences of survivors of disasters triggered by natural hazards

Abstract

Disasters triggered by natural hazards pose significant dangers to the economy, society, personal property, and people's well-being. In order to mitigate these hazards, disaster education is critical. Few studies have concentrated on recording qualitative experiences from disaster survivors in order to make them available as open educational materials for risk communication in a structured way or to compare them scientifically using qualitative data analytic methods. The goal of this study is to provide a novel approach for capturing the experiences of disaster survivors in a structured way and to provide this structure as machine-readable metadata so that information may be easily analysed, searched, shared, and extracted by software applications. The findings of this study suggest that the proposed method for gathering citizen knowledge and experiences about historical disasters and making them usable as educational tools is effective. It can add to better disaster preparedness in the future.