[EGOV LIST] Academic Research on Disaster Information Management Continues its Steady Growth

[Jochen Scholl]

DIRL Version 4.4 Released

As per May 9, 2022, version 4.4 of the Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL)<http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/index.php> has been released as a minor update. Another minor update will follow during this summer. The library now contains 4,099 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of disaster information and information technologies and their uses in the context of disasters. This represents an increase over the previous version of 166 references, or 4.2%. The DIRL release history<http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/history.php> reveals that from the inaugural DIRL version 1.0 to this version (DIRL v. 4.4), the peer-reviewed academic literature has almost doubled in the course of less than four years. This is a remarkable increase of the body of academic knowledge in the particular area of disaster information management and disaster information technology within a relatively short period of time.

The DIRL is intended to become an indispensable tool for Disaster Information and Technology-interested scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions may want to rely on this reference library.

Packaged in a zip file, bibTeX<http://www.bibtex.org/>, RIS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(file_format)> as well as an Endnote package (enlp) versions are available. Mendeley<http://www.mendeley.com/> or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. The DIRL can be downloaded from the DIRL website<http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/index.php>.

Next scheduled minor update: 08/15/2022, next major update” 11/15 2022. Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Acknowledgement: No curator can do the work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DIRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Andrea Leigh Berg, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, and Hannah Robinson.

Citation: Scholl, Hans J. (2022). The Disaster information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 4.4—5.0. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dirl/

Kind regards,

Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl, MBA
Full Professor

Fellow of the Digital Government Society
Recipient of the IFIP Service Award
Research Fellow of the Center for Technology in Government
Elected Faculty Council Member (iSchool)

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