Tracing patient PLOD by mobile phones Mitigation of epidemic risks based on patient locational open data

In the cases when public health authorities confirm patients with highly contagious diseases, they release summaries about patient locations and travel information to alert the public. Due to privacy concerns, these releases do not include the detailed data, and typically comprise the information about commercial facilities and public transportation used by the patients. This paper proposes a framework to represent the information in Resource Description Framework (RDF). The open data would then be used by residents for automated estimation of the potential risks of contacts, combined with the location information stored in their mobile phones.