- From: <donc@internode.on.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:38:40 +0930
- To: Gavin Treadgold <gt@kestrel.co.nz>, public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Hi Gav, Another to add to this mix is the "Glossary of Humanitarian Aid and Emergency Terms & Acronyms" a few of us put together several years ago for Sahana foundation developments - it's a compilation of several popular EM Glossaries available at: http://users.on.net/~donc/sahana/sahana_draft_domain_glossary.pdf Also - I have a schematic "disaster damage entity relationships" drawing constructed from the 1990's application "The Emergency Management System" that might prove useful for ontological developments. It only describes a small subset of Emergency Management inter-systems communications, however it gives an idea of the type of interactions required... available at: http://users.on.net/~donc/sahana/draft_damage_entity_relationship_dwg.pdf (PS - If anyone wants to copy the text from the PDF's and dump it on a Wiki, please feel free - the only thing I ask is to keep the title and references to Sahana intact). Kind regards, Don Cameron > Hi all, > > Last year I started an effort designed to capture various > terms, and list the different definitions and sources. > After a few hours and a little effort I ended up with > the following... > > <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Terms> > > This was focused primarily on New Zealand terms, although > I did include a couple of international sources at the > time. This included legislative definitions in New > Zealand that I obtained from the relevant acts. > > <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Sources> > <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Legislation> > > Is this the sort of direction we are wanting to head down > in this project to identify, for example, different > definitions of 'disaster'? > > <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Disaster> > > Note, I don't necessarily think we could or would want to > build a global glossary as there are too many > definitions out there to manage. > > Perhaps the biggest point to note is that many of the > terms definitions are not really standalone, but they > are part of the context of the document/legislative > instrument within which they are used. > > Cheers Gavin
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