Collaborative Incident Reporting with Linked Heterogeneous Information

This paper proposes a framework to integrate XML data from heterogeneous sources for querying performance. There are 2 steps to handle the multiple source data. The first step is to establish links between the data sources. Then, the next step is to develop a standard format and data conversions are performed after the collection process. For an illustration of the framework, an incident reporting mobile application is developed. Users can report events or crime incidents using an android phone. The reported information can formulate a query to relevant data sources and extract associated information of the event. The application provides an interactive and real time platform to integrate data and communication with other users.