- From: C H <craighubleyca@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
- To: public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org
Sadly it may now be late to change the name of the incubator (though not too late to change the name of the standard). Once there was a single post to a mailing list with the name "public-disaster-management-..." it became inevitable. Words are much more persistent than persons or infrastructures, as any student of history or theology knows. I have accordingly changed the name back on the wiki page despite its obvious failings ("disaster" is a dangerously narrow scope and "management" of same simply an oxymoron). I offer three alternatives: - "comprehensive emergency management" (NZ usage) - "readiness, reduction, response, relief, recovery and resilience" or "6R", inspired by the NZ 4Rs defined http://www.plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/4_Rs_(NZNatCDEMPlanOrder2005) ) - "comprehensive logistics-unifying semantics towards emergency resilience" or "CLUSTER", inspired by this oddly abstract and meaningless (but standard!) UN term I like this last one best as: - it actually does describe the purpose of the effort - like any acronym it can be changed if required later (say to "crisis and logistics uniform semantic types enabling relief" or whatever else satisfies the trolls) - the wise will recognize it's the underlying terms all clusters must agree on to achieve their objectives - the stupid will think the W3 ontology is already used by the UN and will just rubber stamp its use - those in between will have to fight to define some other standard meaning for "CLUSTER" uphill against the stupid, rather than the wise having to do that - it lends itself well to qualified usage like "camp CLUSTER", "nutrition CLUSTER", etc. It's also easy to just brush off as a trollish cheesy bit of propaganda intended to suck up to the UN, so it should satisfy those who don't like the final ontology and wish merely to dismiss it. 6R is even more flexible and abbreviates very short but has the problem of not being used by anyone yet. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php
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