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Due to the special geographical environment, Taiwan often faces many threats from natural disasters, such as typhoon, torrential rain, earthquake, flood, debris flow, etc. However, disaster warning depends on different types of disasters issued in the divergent ways by governments. In terms of dispersed information and arduous to collect, data is hard to reuse. By means of open data vigorously promoted by government, The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) established NCDR Alert Platform, gathered domestic various types of disaster warning information and provided external open format for the public to free use. Taiwan disaster warning standard is on the basis of international Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Version 1.2, and adjusts in accordance with domestic conditions to set Common Alerting Protocol Taiwan Profile (CAP-TWP), for the sake of meeting the needs of information exchange, enhance the effectiveness of anti-disaster affairs, and large scale disasters that may occur in the future, in case of the need for international support to quickly connect with the world. The platform releases 12 types of disaster now, including typhoons, torrential rain, earthquakes, tsunamis, flood, high water, reservoir discharge, debris flow, road closed, Taiwan high speed rail incident, Taiwan railway incident, work and school closed, and then gradually increasing. Disaster warning doesn’t only issue CAP-TWP format, but also provides geographic markup language such as KML with several channels including web pages, Atom Feed, Email, FTP, HTTP to provide diversified backhaul services. NCDR Alerts Platform is part of the convenient services in terms of government development. The service is concerning civil aid and very significant. Promptly publish warning information on the website conveys the message to the user with multiple channels. The earlier users act in emergency and the less people loss life and property.

Open data, common alerting protocol, disaster management