All -
I have been involved (peripherally) in a W3C incubator group
activity. Below is a call to review their draft report and work to
date.
Please send any comments to the individuals named in the letter.
Regards
Carl
OGC
We invite and encourage your
comment on a preliminary report from the Emergency
Information Interoperability Framework (EIIF) Incubator Group of the
W3C. The incubator group will conclude its work on 30 June 2009 and welcomes
input from the emergency management community at this time.
The mission of the Emergency
Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, part of the Incubator
Activity, is to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in
vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability
framework.
The emergency management
community encompasses a broad spectrum of local, national and international
organizations with a role to play. Comprehensive emergency management generally
is composed of Reduction, Readiness, Response, and Recovery activities. The wide
variety of roles in which information systems are used by emergency managers
(such as assessment, facilitation, coordination, and support), as well as the
wide range of organizations involved, require a collaborative approach to the
sharing of information. Systems to support this can add significant value,
especially as the scope and scale of an event increase and, along with them, the
volume of information required to be managed and shared.
It is viewed as essential that
information is stored and communicated in common formats to ensure that
information can be easily exchanged and aggregated to support the decision
making process. A key component of this process is ensuring that consistent
definitions (vocabulary) are used to support meaningful sharing of
information.
This preliminary report of this
W3C incubator group includes the following:
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A sampling of information frameworks
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An emergency response coordination scenario
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A review of selected use cases
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Consideration of work required to move toward common
ontologies
Through this work, the incubator
group hopes to encourage the emergency management community in the development
of clearly defined vocabularies and a framework for information interoperability
to ensure that meaningful sharing and aggregation of information to assist in
emergency functions.
To provide feedback on this
preliminary report, please send email to Renato Iannella
and chamindra@opensource.lk">Chamindra de
Silva, EIIF Incubator Group co-Chairs, no later than
<date?>.
Carl Reed, PhD
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