Re: Requirement for 3W interop standard

Thanks Paul

Can we look at the schema so that we can evaluate its suitability to
be used as the basis for standardization? Is it publicly available and
any documentation provided?

cheers
PDM

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Paul Currion <paul@currion.net> wrote:
> The 3W / W3 is the minimum information requirement for effective
> co-ordination in the humanitarian community. We've been working on it as an
> established concept since at least 1999 (Kosovo), developing databases and
> collection systems with varying degrees of success (ahem). OCHA now has a
> schema (supported by a database) which is being used in a number of
> different country offices - I assume that this is what Chamindra is
> referring to as their system. We are interested in generating a standard
> based on this which can then be adopted by other developers.
>
>
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> Chamindra de Silva wrote:
>
> 3w is short for "Who is doing what where" (which is exactly one of the
> use-cases we discussed at the F2F). I am not sure where this originated
> from, but it seems to be a common term used in humanitarian response
> circles. Paul, could you elaborate on this?
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:02 AM, <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chamindra,
>>
>> Sahana and OCHA is working on building
>> > some interop between the 3W applications in both systems.
>>
>>
>> what do you mean  3w data exactly?
>> nd what systems? (sahana is a system, but ocha is an organization, right?)
>> please tell us more
>>
>> pdm
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