Semi-structured data extraction and modelling: the WIA Project

Over the last decades, the amount of data of all kinds available electronically has increased dramatically.Data are accessible through a range of interfaces including Web browsers, database query languages, application-specific interfaces, built on top of a number of different data exchange formats.All these data span from un-structured to highly s

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Ocean Observations Required to Minimize Uncertainty in Global Tsunami Forecasts, Warnings, and Emergency Response

It is possible that no catastrophe has mobilized the global ocean science and coastal emergency management communities more than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.Though the Pacific tsunami threat was recognized, and a warning system had been in place since 1965, there was no warning system in the GLASS BABY BOTTLE Indian Ocean, and almost 230,000 peop

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