The following standard can be used as a start for the ontology /interop discussion on the crisis logistics side. ------------------------- Humanitarian Logistics: Getting Ahead in Spatial Data Infrastructure "Standards for data management in the sector have been a headache since the beginning. Standards are essential for sharing data between agencies, whether at HQ or field level, but the politics involved in developing them have frankly defeated most previous attempts. Recent discussions in the IASC sub-group on information management have started the ball rolling in some of the clusters, but it’s still painfully slow given that we started talking about this eight years ago..... Where there has been progress is in the development of spatial data infrastructure for the UN system, a fairly comprehensive effort overseen by the UN Geographic Information Working Group. The UN Joint Logistics Center has just released the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport database schema (UNSDI-T v1.2)." Quoted from the Paul Currion's humanitarian.info blog: The full read can be found at: http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/09/16/humanitarian-logistics-getting-ahead-in-spatial-data-infrastructure/ Specification http://www.unjlc.org/tools/UNSDI-T/UNSDIT_v1_2_HTML.html Chamindra de Silva http://chamindra.googlepages.comReceived on Monday, 17 September 2007 17:56:23 GMT
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