Worldwide Incidents Tracking System
The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) was a publicly accessible terrorism database operated by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). NCTC discontinued WITS in April 2012.[1]
Content
As of September 2010, WITS contained over 68,939 records.
The database was organized in the following dimensions:
- City
- Country
- Damage
- Event Type
- Facilities Type
- Geocode Anchor
- Geocode Country
- Geocode Province
- Group Type
- ICN: An incident number of form YYYYMMDDXX
- Incident Group Type
- Incident Subject
- Incident Summary
- Incident Year
- Included Facility Defining Characteristics
- Included Facility Nationalities
- Included Facility Targeted Characteristics
- Included Group Nationalities
- Perpetrator Confidence
- Provinces States
- Related Term
- Victim Incident Country
- WITS Child Record ParentID
- Weapon
References
- ↑ Kimery, Anthony. "START Gets State Department Contract To Provide Terrorism Data, Analysis For Country Terrorism Report". Homeland Security Today (HSToday). KMD Media LLC. Retrieved 17 December 2014.