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Representing egress data
Author(s) -
Gwynne S. M. V.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.1106
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , data science , presentation (obstetrics) , work (physics) , data access , information repository , computer science , external data representation , automatic identification and data capture , representation (politics) , data presentation , database , computer data storage , engineering , documentation , political science , politics , law , speech recognition , radiology , programming language , operating system , medicine , mechanical engineering
SUMMARY Data are essential to the understanding of human behaviour in fire. Human egress data‐sets are scarce, and those currently available are relatively narrow in scope, from varied sources, inconsistently described and frequently several decades old. This paper describes a framework for the storage and presentation of human egress data. This work has been conducted as part of a project funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and, as a result, a central repository of data will be created that provides tools to facilitate the storage, representation and access to the data needed for researchers and engineers alike. When fully implemented, this framework (in the form of a Data Portal ) will better inform the use of the data available and make accessing this data more convenient. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.