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Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray
Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Until recently, the mine action and broader humanitarian disarmament community have relied on ORDATA for ordnance information. However, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, James Madison University and software-development company Ripple Design developed a novel aid to using ORDATA: the Collaborative ORDnance data repository (CORD). Representing a significant update to the data set, CORD is an ordnance-identification system featuring Web 2.0 concepts that allow individual users to contribute updates to the data.