iNowit, Linked Data as Key Element for Innovation in Emergency Response

Bart van Leeuwen [email protected] / @semanticfire Bart van Leeuwen combines his 15 years firefighting experience with 17 years of netage.nl ownership. This combination allows him to highlight a new perspective on operational information delivery. With the ever larger amount of available data and changes in tactical approaches to firefighting new and fresh thinking is needed. As a " outside the box " thinker he helps fire departments to approach their information problems in a different way. In this process, technology is not the answer, it's an enabler and should be treated as such. Currently he leads an innovation project where proven information management technology is combined with new paradigms like semantic web technology to deal with information flows in a smarter and agile way. Introduction The iNowit Project for safety regions in the Netherlands was started in 2013, one of the key elements is the use of Linked Data for terminology and data exchange as a driver for innovation.