Re: EM Standards List

Tom -

I am not an EM specialist either. I am a Geo-technology professional working 
for a standards organization. As such, I am much closer to the IT community 
than the pure EM community. From that perspective, there are a range of 
standards that the EM professional will not be familiar with but are (or 
will be) critical to emergency preparedness, response, and post event 
logistics in the future. IT Standards such as SIP, LoST, XACML, GeoXACML, 
GML, WMS, SensorML, WS-Security, and so forth. If you want to see an IT 
perspective on an architecture for emergency response and risk management, 
take a look at the ORCHESTRA reference architecture (including semantic 
interoperability). While more from a geo IT perspective than from say a 
regional policy and procedure perspective, this document is totally in line 
with the recommendations of the US Academy of Sciences study titled, 
"Successful Response Starts with a Map".

Going forward, all of my recommendations to this group will be from a geo 
point of view. I do not have the experience to deal with policy standards, 
standard operating procedures, and so forth.

Regards

Carl
CTO
OGC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Worthington" <Tom.Worthington@tomw.net.au>
To: <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: EM Standards List


>
> At 02:04 PM 27/02/2008, donc@internode.on.net wrote:
>>... this particular initiative has a well defined mission to create an 
>>ontology for the EM domain; and that at least at this point in time the 
>>mission does not include trying to reinvent the science of emergency 
>>management (noting EM is nowadays qualified and quantified by academic and 
>>other globally recognised certifications ...
>
> Apologies, it appears I am not qualified to participate in the list as I 
> am not a credentialed EM specialist. So I will un-subscribe and wish you 
> well with the work.
>
> Perhaps W3C might consider a new activity to involve EM specialists with 
> IT people such as myself, to use the web for EM communications to and 
> between the public. To get an idea of what I have in mind: 
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/labels/emergency%20management.html>.
>
>
>
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Received on Monday, 3 March 2008 00:36:07 UTC