RE: Requirement for 3W interop standard (new proposed schema attached)

Hi,

As far as I remember OASIS' 3W was based on the schema of the OCHA one. Of
course they might have changed/adapted it.

Best,

Paolo Palmero
Information Management Officer (GIS)
Field Information Services Unit (AIMB)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
DC1-1358, One UN Plaza,  New York, NY 10017
Tel: +1-917-367-5424
Mobile: +1-917-349-4506
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Email: palmero@un.org
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To which I would also add... IMHO the W3/Situational Awareness case is
possibly the most important set of data models for the W3C incubator to
"move forward". As Paola points out there is no "formal standard" in this
area, and neither the OCHA 3W or Sahana model is "it", and groups like
iMMAP have their own model in their OASIS system.

So there's a real chance to make a difference by exploring both the data
model and the interop model.

My suggestion:

1. identify a preliminary "intermediate" model for 3W/Situational Awareness
Interop, acknowledging that it will have to be extensible and most likely
changed/updated when confronted with "the real world".
2. encourage Sahana/OCHA or anyone else with a solution in this space to
move ahead with modeling (or even implementing) the interop process,
throwing the conceptual results back into the model.

Just 2cents.

Nigel

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Subject: Re: Requirement for 3W interop standard (new proposed schema
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paola.dimaio@gmail.com wrote:
> I am not sure that we are clear about the relationship between this
> workgroup agenda, and W3. and/or Sahana.
I was under the impression that W3 was one of the use cases that this
group had on its agenda, and that Mandada had agreed to work on analysis
of W3 Use Case and OCHA Schema
(?http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/2008-07-17). Since the remit
of this group is to investigate the path forward via an emergency
management systems information interoperability framework, I would have
thought that looking at the interoperability between these two systems -
both of which are in use in the field - would be quite useful.

cheers

Paul C

Received on Friday, 8 August 2008 13:16:39 UTC