Re: Philippines data - British Red Cross

Simon

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thanks for sharing

from what I recall *I am doing this in between of lots of other things :-)*
one of the historical problems we have (as a community of open information
professionals) is accessing emergency/relief data. so, from my perspective,
it would be very useful to have an evaluation of the data sharing policy in
practice, or any hints thereof, the transition from PDF to xml or other web
friendly format is a technical formality that is relatively trivial when
the policy is transparent

In addition to any support Carsten and others may offer, from the work
myself and other folks have done before,
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/Main_Page

we can provide a bit of help in devising the schemas. (keeping in mind the
vocabulary/ontological aspects of the schema) assuming that the information
schemas used in the original dataset currently available in PDF , are not
optimized for web based representation/exchange
(havent looked at them in detail), we can help there. we have a framework
that has been formally validated with DOLCE that we can use to ensure
integrity of the data
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-Framework-20090720/

if you think this could be useful, we can give more info how to use the
framework


In addition, if this is a first of any kind, some of us may be interested
in working with you folks to write a paper  about this effort.

Let us know how can we assist, and look forward to be reading about the
progress being made in this space

GIS rocks

P



On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:58 PM, SJohnson <simonbjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies to everyone for missing the skype call.  I've been busy all day
> and have only just picked this up.  For future use my ID is
> simon_b_johnson.  As far as I'm aware the RC has not shared open data
> online before or has any open data policy.  The British Red Cross GIS team
> is very interested in exploring this, but this is our own initiative rather
> than anything passed down from management.
>
> One of the data sets that could be included is the Situation Report
> released by the Philippines Government.
> http://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/ndrrmc-update-sitrep-no-44-effects-typhoon-yolanda-haiyan
> We have a process in place of scrapping the pdf for our use.  It contains
> data relating to affected people evacuations centres etc per municipality
> for about 650 municipalities.  There may be other tables as well with data
> relevant to the hxl vocab, but I haven't checked.  There are a few other
> data sets we have processed that may also be able to be included.
>
> In terms of RC data, I doubt I can share anything beyond what we are
> currently sharing publicly in other formats.  I'm thinking it would also be
> a good chance to assess what data we do have internally that might be of
> use and start a dialogue here about sharing before the next humanitarian
> crisis.  We could also see what other data we commonly do share that might
> not fall within hxl's current spec.  Currently I'm not expecting much
> overlap, but it would be useful just to make a start with whatever we have.
>
> To see what we are producing in respect to this crisis please visit the
> following links:
> http://webviz.redcross.org:8080/index.html
> http://americanredcross.github.io/haiyan_mapfolio/ (There's a lot, but it
> is worth scrolling through to see the variation further down)
>
> A quick background on the GIS team here.  We are relatively new (only 2
> years old) and this is the first time we have been asked to support IFRC
> response in conjunction with the American Red Cross GIS team.  The only
> experience I have had with type of technology before is writing a simple
> webpage to query the test store for affected populations and displaying it
> on the map, so this will be a learning exercise our side.  We do have a
> technical minded volunteer who has just started who I am hoping to throw at
> the task and see how it goes.
>
> We're going to use the main website as a guide, but if you are able to
> offer any other material or advice it would be appreciated.  I'm sure once
> we get started we will be returning with a few more questions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 16:21:54 UTC, Carsten Kessler wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> I think having a triple store t the British Red Cross publishing HXL
>> data would be great. What kind of data do you have in mind?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carsten
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Daniel Link <dlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Simon,
>> >
>> > We are having a HXL-related Skype call today at 15:00 CET. Let me know
>> your Skype ID if you would like to shortly describe your idea there today.
>> Carsten Keßler might have the chance to join today too.
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
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