There is huge number and variety of disaster databases in the world. So many, and so incomparable.

La RED made a new approach to disaster databases. They wanted to address this problem, not only by making a standard, but by measuring the impact of disasters from below, at the local level, rather than on the basis of each event.

DesInventar is a database schema and software to support it, which has now been implemented in 21 disaster prone areas all over the world as far as they know.