Disaster Lit® (retired June 1, 2021)

This resource was retired on June 1, 2021 and is no longer updated. These data remain available to support research and development efforts. More information is available at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterinfo.html.

Disaster Lit®: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is a dataset of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. Documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, factsheets, websites, databases, and similar materials selected from over 700 organizations for a professional audience. Materials were selected from non-commercial publishing sources and supplement disaster-related resources from PubMed (biomedical journal literature) and MedlinePlus (health information for the public).

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"datadiscovery-nlm-nih-gov/disaster-lit-retired-june-1-2021-xjqa-xcwb\".\"disaster_lit_retired_june_1_2021\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.