SKYbrary is a wiki created by the EUROCONTROL, European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Flight Safety Foundation to create a comprehensive source of aviation safety information freely available online. It was launched in May 2008 on a platform based on MediaWiki. The Flight Safety Foundation (a founding member) defines SKYbrary's goal as: capturing authoritative aviation industry information and create cumulative knowledge, especially with regard to critical safety issues. HindSight Magazine related to SKYbrary received the Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award in 2009 at the FSF International Air Safety Seminar (IASS).

SKYbrary's way of working

SKYbrary is driven by a Risk management, risk based knowledge management approach, meaning: # Information must be in the right place at the right time. # Managing knowledge helps ensure that organizations have appropriate capabilities in place (linking ability to innovate and capacity planning). # Effective management of knowledge helps organizations share best practice more effectively, avoiding duplication of effort, whatever the daily operational constraints. SKYbrary's Management and Quality Assurance process is described in detail on Skybrary Content Management. SKYbrary uses the Semantic MediaWiki extension to annotate Semantic Web, semantic data within articles.

SKYbrary structure

The SKYbrary front page gives visitors access to aviation safety knowledge via three portals. Each portal then contains numerous categories of articles chosen because of their relevance to aviation safety professionals. Current categories in use:

Operational Issues

* Air Ground Communication * Separation (air traffic control), Airspace Infringement * Bird Strike * Controlled Flight Into Terrain * Fire * Ground Operations * Human Factors * Level bust, Level Bust * List of airliner crashes involving loss of control, Loss of Control * Loss of separation, Loss of Separation * Runway excursion, Runway Excursion * Runway incursion, Runway Incursion * Wake turbulence, Wake Vortex Turbulence * Weather * General

Enhancing Safety

* Airworthiness * Flight Technical * Safety Management
Safety Nets
* Theory of Flight * General

Safety Regulations

* Certification * ESARRs * Licensing * Regulation * General

Miscellaneous

* Author's Articles * Aviation accidents and incidents, Accident and Serious Incident Reports * Help

References

External links

SKYbrary website

EUROCONTROL

ICAO

Flight Safety Foundation

DNV (Det Norske Veritas) about the Safety Imperative

Air Transport News

SKYway spring 2008
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