Re: Welcome!

Hello Renato,

Thank you for the welcome. I'm happy to be part of this effort. My role in 
IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs is as program manager for 
humanitarian disaster response, with active support of Sahana deployments. 
I have also provided knowledge management and content management expertise 
within IBM and to nonprofit partners. I hope to be able to leverage IBM 
expertise for this project as needed. Thank you.

Best regards,
 

Rebecca E. Curzon
IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs
Content Manager, On Demand Community; PMP
IBM Corporation, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Phone/Fax:  (978) 759-0280    (t/l: 364-6420)
Rebecca Curzon/Cambridge/IBM@Lotus   rebecca_curzon@us.ibm.com
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Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au> 
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Dear all - welcome to the EIIF XG!

We have an interesting and challenging set of activities ahead for 
this year, as described in our Charter [1]

Of the two first activities:
   1 - review of the state of the art of crisis ontologies/vocabularies
   2 - interoperability information framework for emergency management

We will start to collect and categorise items for 1) on our Wiki [2].

As is usual in new groups, please also feel free to send an email 
introducing yourself and what specific goals you have with this XG.

For me, if we can get to the point of understanding the landscape of 
information standards and vocabularies, with a clear framework to work 
towards, then we should progress the uptake of informations standards 
across emergency management.

I should also note that I will also act as liaison with the OASIS 
Emergency Management Technical Committee (as I am a member there) as 
CAP and the EDXL family are an integral part of the standards landscape.


Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA

[1] <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/charter-20071203>
[2] <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/>