Re: Terminology

Gavin -

To add to the mix, the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee 
members are discussing the management vocabulary alignment issue for 
international use to enhance interoperability in the EM community. Also, the 
IETF GeoPRIV WG has developed and had IANA approval for a taxonomy/registry 
of location types for use in location based services with special emphasis 
on EM.

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Treadgold" <gt@kestrel.co.nz>
To: "public-xg-eiif" <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: Terminology


>
> Hi all,
>
> Last year I started an effort designed to capture various terms, and  list 
> the different definitions and sources. After a few hours and a  little 
> effort I ended up with the following...
>
> <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Terms>
>
> This was focused primarily on New Zealand terms, although I did  include a 
> couple of international sources at the time. This included  legislative 
> definitions in New Zealand that I obtained from the  relevant acts.
>
> <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Sources>
> <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Legislation>
>
> Is this the sort of direction we are wanting to head down in this  project 
> to identify, for example, different definitions of 'disaster'?
>
> <http://plan.net.nz/wiki/index.php/Category:Disaster>
>
> Note, I don't necessarily think we could or would want to build a  global 
> glossary as there are too many definitions out there to manage.
>
> Perhaps the biggest point to note is that many of the terms  definitions 
> are not really standalone, but they are part of the  context of the 
> document/legislative instrument within which they are  used.
>
> Cheers Gavin
>

Received on Monday, 3 March 2008 16:00:30 UTC