Roadmapping Discussion Summary – Social Media and Linked Data for Emergency Response V. Lanfranchi 1 , S. Mazumdar 1 , E. Blomqvist 2 , C. Brewster 3 1 OAK Group, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, Regent Court – 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP Sheffield, UK {v.lanfranchi, s.mazumdar}@dcs.shef.ac.uk 2 Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden eva.blomqvist@liu.se 3 Operations and Information Management Group Aston Business School, Aston University, UK c.a.brewster@aston.ac.uk Abstract. This paper provides a summary of the Social Media and Linked Data for Emergency Response (SMILE) workshop, co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference, at Montpellier, France, 2013. Following paper presentations and question answering sessions, an extensive discussion and roadmapping session was organised which involved the workshop chairs and attendees. Three main topics guided the discussion - challenges, opportunities and showstoppers. In this paper, we present our roadmap towards effectively exploiting social media and semantic web techniques for emergency response and crisis management. Keywords: Social Media, Linked Data, Emergency Response, Crisis Management. 1 Introduction Emergencies require significant effort in order for emergency workers and the general public to respond effectively. Emergency Responders must rapidly gather information, determine where to deploy resources and make prioritization decisions regarding how best to deal with the emergency. Good situation awareness [1] is therefore paramount to ensure a timely and effective response. Thus, for an incident to be dealt with effectively, citizens and responders must be able to share reliable information and help build an understanding of the current local and global situation and how this may evolve over time [2]. Information available on Social Media is increasingly becoming a fundamental source for Situation Awareness. During a crisis,