Linked Open Data And Visualization Technique And it’s Importance To Bayelsa State Flooding Issues
ABSTRACT
Linked open data has been around since 2009 in the field of computer science. Various Government all over the world has decided to let data open. When these data have been released to the public, it comes in form of CSV (comma separated variables). In Nigeria almost all the 36 states have embraced the open government data policy. But worthy of note is the government of Edo state south -south Nigeria was the first to embrace the linked open data technique by having datasets of raw materials that can be found in Edo state (Edostate.gov.ng, 2014). Flooding in recent times has been a recurring natural disaster in several places in Nigeria with Bayelsa state not excluded. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the use of linked data and visualization technique with the implementation of an open linked data site that will help to mitigate the effects of floods in Bayelsa state. To demonstrate the study further, a web application was developed showing the names of towns and local government that is affected, not affected and partially affected by flooding in Bayelsa state. This application was implemented with HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT.