23 September 2014
The GICHD is pleased to announce the launch of the Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (CORD), a novel approach to ordnance data management developed by the GICHD, James Madison University and software development company RippleDesign.
CORD represents not only a significant update to the dataset; it is an ordnance identification system enabling web-based search of landmine and other unexploded ordnance data to assist humanitarian demining operations and the humanitarian disarmament community at large. In addition, it is a collaborative data repository built on Web 2.0 concepts that allow users to contribute to the up-keep of the data.
Until recently, the mine action and the broader humanitarian disarmament communities have relied on one main source of data for ordnance information: ORDATA. ORDATA had not been updated for several years however, leading to inaccuracies in statistics and reports on the use and impact of various forms of ordnance. Countries addressed this issue by customising individual copies of ORDATA, leading inevitably to heterogeneity between datasets and thereby preventing any useful comparison of statistics.
Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository | cord.gichd.org
Contact | Dionysia Kontotasiou, CORD Project Manager, GICHD, d.kontotasiou@gichd.org
Category: Mine Action