Re: Some observations on the complexity of vocabularies...for EIIF

Gary

>
>
>   There is no entry for
> "victim", which was one item that Paola was using as a main example.
> Instead we have some related terms such as "actor" which mentions the
> victim role in a simulation context.  It's defined as:
>
>   Actor: Individual simulating a victim, victim family, media,
> perpetrator, or other person within the exercise scenario to prompt
> realistic action/reaction from the exercise players.


> So there is a gap there.


yep, indeed. big gap,  several gaps  . obviously the field of operation of
such an activity is the simulation lab

>
>
> On the other hand the Glossary has any number of informational items
> that we might add such as Alert, which discusses related terms (e.g.
> “advisory”) and a supertype "notification" :
>
> Alert: A notification category between “advisory” and “activation”
> that provides urgent information and indicates that system action may
> be necessary. An alert can be used for initial notification that
> incident activation is likely, and for ongoing notification throughout
> an incident to convey incident information and directed or recommended
> actions (see “advisory” – “alert” – “activation” for contrast between
> the other notification categories).
>
> Notification: Information distributed to relevant personnel that
> contains important information regarding an actual or potential hazard
> impact and the response status of the organization. There are
> generally four categories of notification: update, alert, advisory,
> and activation.


>
> I would suggest that we take such useful items to supplement our
> vocabulary and try to harmonize them.  Showing explicit taxonomies
> helps do that. These should find their way into the Information Model.
> And having some agreement on a core set of semantic relations is also
> important.


yep, thats what I think this segment of the project is set out to do. we
would need to come up with a methodology as well
I have been thinking on how to go about it, looking for the most efficient
path in the maze of possibilities
suggestions welcome


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and unfunded work, and  results of the funded work are not fed back for the
public benefit. In fact sometime the result of research is 'sold' to the
private sector for a profit. I think this is a practice in academic research
in the EU at least, and partly contributes to the a) fragmentation b)
conflict of interestes c) progress of knowledge in this area.
 This is a generic issue that applies to many sectors, not just the EM.  At
this stage, as something like this directly intersects with a) projects
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work to declare their interests (if not alredy done)  and look for synergy
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>
> I'm not sure if any of the good work at GWU has looked at a taxonomic
> skeleton for the glossary or a system set of relations.



Universal task 'JOINT'  taxonomy looks good, I am sure there is more ....


www.dtic.mil/doctrine/training/ujtl_ip.doc

Next Generation Universal Joint Task List (UJTL)
UNIVERSAL TASK TAXONOMY
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/docs/UTL2_1.pdf


Integrated Taxonomy to Assess Warfighting Effectiveness and
Human Performance Readiness
http://www.internationalmta.org/1998/9842.html


Some work on
glossaries is also using natural language processing (NLP) tools to
"extract" preliminary ontologic models and perhaps someone in the WG
has access to such a tool to see what vocabularies they come up with.
I'd certainly enjoying on this with such a tool.

There are several researchers trying to 'sell' their technologies in this
space at the moment, but I am sure we can find
someone who would let us play with their tools.... let's think....






Paola Di Maio


>
> --
> 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 6:14 AM,  <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paola Di Maio,
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