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Flood management has become a national agenda in Malaysia with heavy rainfall throughout the year lead to the frequent occurrences of flood disaster. The current practice of flood management in Malaysia is unable to effectively harness the fragmented knowledge residing within flood related agencies due to lack of coordination and inefficient knowledge sharing. This paper explores the potential of ontology based knowledge integration framework to establish a governing layer in managing flood knowledge thus improve overall performance and preserve semantic consistence through ontological backbone. 