- From: Carsten Kessler <carsten.kessler@hunter.cuny.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:32:19 -0400
- To: Bart van Leeuwen <bart_van_leeuwen@netage.nl>
- Cc: "public-emergency@w3.org" <public-emergency@w3.org>
Hi Bart, I think this is a great idea. In order to address these three points, I think some concrete scenarios would help, or at least knowing what benefits e.g. firefighters are expecting from using semantic web technologies? Best, Carsten --- Carsten Kessler – http://carsten.io Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information – http://carsilab.org Department of Geography Hunter College – CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY-10065 carsten.kessler@hunter.cuny.edu +1 (212) 560-3591 On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Bart van Leeuwen <bart_van_leeuwen@netage.nl> wrote: > Hi All, > > Based on the Mission statement draft [1] I have had a discussion with Tomi > and Carsten on how to proceed. > > One of the items is to engage with practitioners and if possible get them on > board of this group. > This has failed until now, mainly because not too many people have the > connections in that community. > The problem is that I do have the connections, but I have no value > proposition to offer right now. > > What the practitioners dealing with emergency information currently look for > the most is a 'body' > that gives some very basic advice on standards of semantic interoperability. > > a) What vocabulary to use for: > - Definitions > - Locations, both geo and addresses > - Metadata > - Event description > ( In no way do I intend to lead development of any of these, just connecting > them would work ) > > b) best practices for publishing multilingual information > > c) what technology / api to make available ( TTL / JSON-LD / Linked Data > Platform ) > > Although its very likely we will point to work from others ( GLD-WG > LOCADD-WG, SKOS, DWBP-WG etc. etc. ) > Having a formal reference list somewhere is a good start, and probably easy > to assemble to have first deliverable. > > The very basics of this will work in large scale incidents / disasters as > well > > Is this something we can work with ? > > [1] http://www.w3.org/community/emergency/wiki/Mission_Statement_Draft > > Met Vriendelijke Groet / With Kind Regards > Bart van Leeuwen > > ############################################################## > # twitter: @semanticfire > # netage.nl > # http://netage.nl > # Enschedepad 76 > # 1324 GJ Almere > # The Netherlands > # tel. +31(0)36-5347479 > ##############################################################
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