Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/building-disaster-relief-phone-apps-0930.html

Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.

DIG’s focus is research that takes advantage of the standards developed by the W3C. The new app-development tool requires that the data it accesses be formatted according to the resource description framework, or RDF.