Re: Community group work items

Thanks a lot, good start - well done

If I think of something to add,  I ll ping

PDM


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Carsten Keßler <
carsten.kessler@uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Bart, Tomi and myself have been discussing potential work items for
> the group over the last couple of days. Here's a pleminary list that
> we would like to put up for discussion:
>
> * Overview of existing ontologies, vocabularies (based on results of
> Disaster 2.0 project)
> * Discussion about required level of formalization (SKOS, RDFS,
> different OWL profiles)
> * Brainstrom about use cases where reasoning capabilities are required
> * Guidelines for alignment between existing ontologies
> * Thinking outside the box: looking at standards in the domain and
> data sources that are important to "talk to" (such as OGC services),
> but that are not based on semweb tech
> * Get in touch with maintainers of important reference lists in the
> domain to help them publish the lists in more reusable forms
> * adaption of existing workflows: how to make the move to semweb tech
> for an organization as smooth as possible (this is not an emergency
> information specific item, though)
> * reflect on the specific requirements of emergency information,
> especially timeliness – how well can we actually deal with that?
> * Collect existing use cases of SW tech in emergency management (HXL,
> IATI, MOAC, …) and assess impact
> * Identify and prioritize gaps: what specific requirements does
> emergency management have concerning semantic annotations, and which
> of these are not met by existing vocabularies yet?
> * Complexity of the models and vocabularies; assessment of the
> usability — how much effort is needed to quickly utilize such valuable
> information management resources
> * Communicating about and listing the availability of existing
> datasets about disasters
> * Discussing scenarios for use of the data
>
> If you think that anything is missing or that any of the items should
> not be in the scope of this group, please let us know. We have also
> copied the list on the wiki [1], so if you make any changes, please do
> it there.
>
> Since the summer break is coming up, we would like to leave us some
> time to discuss and prioritize these items until July 19. After that
> deadline, these items should be the basis for the further work of the
> group.
>
> Cheers,
> Carsten
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/emergency/wiki/Work_items
>
>