SismaDL an ontology to represent post-disaster regulation

The emergency caused by a natural disaster must be tackledpromptly by public institutions. In this situation, Governments enactspecific laws (i.e., decrees) to handle the emergency and the reconstruc-tion of destroyed areas. As it happened in 2009 and 2016 when the ItalianGovernment issued several, very different, decrees to face respectively theearthquakes ofL’AquilaandCentro Italia.In this work, we propose SismaDL, a LKIF based ontology, that mod-els the laws in the domain of natural disasters. SismaDL has been usedto model the aforementioned laws to build a knowledge base useful toreason about why one regulation is less effective and efficient than theother. SismaDL is the first step of a wider project whose aims are: i)compare laws in the domain of natural disaster; ii) integrate such laws inthe Semantic Web; iii) evaluate the effectiveness of a post-disaster recon-struction law; iv) identify good practices to build a reference normativemodel of the natural disaster regulation. This project is a founding steptowards the development of accurate and timely IT systems for efficientand high quality disaster management and reconstruction services tosupport Governments and local institutions in case of natural disasters