OASIS Emergency Management TC

Re: [emergency] Cross Standard Definition of Incident Types

  • 1.  Re: [emergency] Cross Standard Definition of Incident Types

    Posted 07-21-2003 21:42
    Just a thought. Rather than focus entirely on content standards, there are
    other possible (and proven) avenues to explore. There are available
    standards that when implemented support near real time interoperability and
    use multiple network accessible content resources independent of content
    format and technology implementation. There is also work being done on
    mechanisms for mapping disparate content models into a common representation
    that can then be used by the client applications. There are numerous reasons
    for considered a balanced approach. One is that the client applications -and
    hence the users - can be protected from changes in the underlying content,
    technologies, and so forth. A really big one is that many local
    jurisdictions will fight very hard anything that requires them to change
    their existing (and operational) content models. This is a major issue in
    the geospatial industry.
    
    As much of the information required by first responders is held in existing
    databases (transportation, water system, building exits, school locations,
    and so forth) or available through some form of sensor web (wind speed and
    direction, traffic volumes, etc.) we also need to insure that such
    information is made available as quickly and as easily as possible and at a
    reasonable cost.
    
    Carl Reed
    OGC