GLIDE Disaster Events: Bosnia and Herzegovina Disaster Identifiers

GLIDE Initiative provides GLIDE numbers, which are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters. The record for each disaster contains a unique identifier to make information interoperable across multiple structured and textual disaster information sources. The dataset for Bosnia and Herzegovina was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Cross-referencing disaster information from multiple international organizations based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Tracking disaster events across borders and over time based on the unique ID system.
• Integrating structured and textual disaster reports into a unified database based on the interoperable identifier.

Strengths

• Provides a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDE number) for each disaster event.
• Adopted by major international organizations including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, UNDP, WMO, IFRC, FAO, and the European Commission.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registration of disaster events with a globally common Unique ID code, as proposed by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:50:51.857112; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bosnia and Herzegovina