Re: thesauri alignment

Paola,

Yet another glossary (from NIMS) , but this one defines Volunteer:

For purposes of the National Incident Management System, any
individual accepted to perform services by the lead agency (which has
authority to accept volunteer services) when the individual performs
services without promise, expectation, or receipt of compensation for
services performed. See 16 U.S.C. 742f(c) and 29 CFR 553.10

They also have a stab at Emergency, very US centric, but illustrates an idea:

Any incident, whether natural or manmade, that requires responsive
action to protect life or property. Under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, an emergency means any
occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President,
Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and
capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health
and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any
part of the United States.

Full glossary is at http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/Glossary.shtm#content


Other useful items include Incidents,

Recovery: The development, coordination, and execution of service- and
site-restoration plans; the reconstitution of government operations
and services; individual, private-sector, nongovernmental, and public
assistance programs to provide housing and to promote restoration;
long-term care and treatment of affected persons; additional measures
for social, political, environmental, and economic restoration;
evaluation of the incident to identify lessons learned; postincident
reporting; and development of initiatives to mitigate the effects of
future incidents.


Resource Tracking: A standardized, integrated process conducted prior
to, during, and after an incident by all emergency management/response
personnel and their associated organizations.

Resources: Personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and
facilities available or potentially available for assignment to
incident operations and for which status is maintained. Resources are
described by kind and type and may be used in operational support or
supervisory capacities at an incident or at an Emergency Operations
Center.

Response: Activities that address the short-term, direct effects of an
incident. Response includes immediate actions to save lives, protect
property, and meet basic human needs. Response also includes the
execution of emergency operations plans and of mitigation activities
designed to limit the loss of life, personal injury, property damage,
and other unfavorable outcomes. As indicated by the situation,
response activities include applying intelligence and other
information to lessen the effects or consequences of an incident;
increased security operations; continuing investigations into nature
and source of the threat; ongoing public health and agricultural
surveillance and testing processes; immunizations, isolation, or
quarantine; and specific law enforcement operations aimed at
preempting, interdicting, or disrupting illegal activity, and
apprehending actual perpetrators and bringing them to justice.

-- 
Gary Berg-Cross,Ph.D.
gbergcross@gmail.com      http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross
SOCoP Executive Secretary
Principal, EM&I Semantic Technology
Potomac, MD
 301-762-5441


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:03 PM,  <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (apol for array of emails, I am on discovery mode)
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> also another example of recent work
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> http://webkr.cs.vu.nl/slides/WebKR_Lecture7_2.pdf
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