Re: Input on EIIF vocabularies

Thanks, Gary and Frank

these will be added to our library of glossaries
somehow all this abundance of glossaries IS part of the problem space that
we are trying to address

I ll have a flat list of (candidate) definitions up (independent from
properties and classes etc) at some point soon

PDM

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@gmail.com>wrote:

> Paola et al,
>
> I've had a little time to search for some relevant vocabularies.  Here
> is one that seems to provide some useful definitions and hierarchies
> for terms:
>
> GEMET, the GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, developed by
> the European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources under contract
> to the European Environment Agency.
>
>
> Currently published and managed by the European Environment
> Information and Observation Network.
>
> GEMET is a compilation of several multilingual vocabularies, and has
> been designed as a general thesaurus, aiming to define a core general
> terminology for the environment. The current version is available in
> 27 languages, and contains over 6,000 descriptors.
>
> See http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet   for the vocabularies.  They
> have and extensive list  of Themes each of which has terms.  So they
> have a "  disasters, accidents, risk " theme with relevant terms such
> as:
>
> Emergency plan  Concept definition:
> Program of procedures to be undertaken in the event of a sudden,
> urgent and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
> especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
> the environment. (Source: RHW)
>
> broader terms
>                safety measure
>
>
> narrower terms
>                risk exposure plan
>
>                warning plan
>
> Scope note:
> Program of procedures to be undertaken in the event of a sudden,
> urgent and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
> especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
> the environment. (Source: RHW)
>
> Groups: RISKS, SAFETY
> Themes: disasters, accidents, risk
>
>
> There's similiar info on emergency relief   Concept definition:
> Money, food or other assistance provided for those surviving a sudden
> and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
> especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
> the environment. (Source: RHW) etc.
>
> 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 Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM,  <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, today I started entering the terms used in our framework in Knoodl,
> >
> http://www.knoodl.com/ui/groups/Emergency_Management/vocab/EIIF_Glossary/entry/
> >
> > It's still a very rough exercise and  sketchy, cause some info is still
> not
> > clear (to me at least) or missing altogether
> >
> > In addition to the learning curve of understanding where all the knoodl
> > buttons are and what to do (it's suppoed to be easy but there are things
> I
> > cannot do yet, will need help asap!)
> >  a few things are not yet clear that need to be defined further before we
> > can proceed, see the enclosed draft document
> >
> > we need to define what is a property, a class, a subclass and, instance,
> > relations etc
> >
> > these choices can be changed later at any time, so we can
> discuss-rediscuss
> > at leisure what would work best for everybody
> > in the meantime, but in the meantime this exercise could help us to
> clarify
> > at least in part what the current documetn and corresponding diagram
> > represent would be helpful
> >
> > also some terms are still  a bit obscure, such as 'interval'  in location
> >
> > I attach my working notes, which would benefit from input from the group,
> I
> > will not be able to look at this again for another few days
> >
> > please provide feedback before our final deadline, and I ll enter the
> > resources as specified by this group
> >
> > btw, today I got a set of terms from FEMA, that would be nice to map to
> our
> > framework at some point
> >
> > anyone wanted to play around with KNoodl, just join the community and you
> ll
> > be in in no time
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > have a nice weekend all!
> >
> >
> > cheers
> > PDM
>
>
>
> --
>



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