priorities and reflectioons on w3c eiif

All,

reflecting on some of the discussions at the f2f last week, the best
part of the meeting, for me, was that
we (unffiliated, diverse stakeholders overing multiple roles during
emergencies) started buidling a common understanding about how we see
issues, priorities, how we use language and concepts, how we represent
them,

Despite having diverse standpoints and backgrounds, we started to
communicate and  shape  a common vision of a possible standrd in
emergency communication

The path ahead is arduous,  full of challenges and perils, and the
dialogue possibly a long one, bringing into discussions an incredible
amount of assumptions about the world,

irst priority now is to devise a common schema that we can start
exchanging emergency data over the web, or at least over IP based
channels, so that we can communicate and improve information
surrounding events.  The implications and repurcussions  could be
vast, potentially endless, and need to be handled sensitively, slowly
and openly, as we think we are trying to do

However the urgency is high: the collective ability to responde and
optiize information flow and operations may depend on our ability of
coming up with such a schema.

One of our members who has had previous experience on anther incubator
group, highlighted for us that a key to success of our ork may like in
engaging the community early. So one of the priorities for this group,
is to get as many agencies, orgs, individuals to work on this
incubator, diversity is encouraged

I am not expecting to get things right immediately, any schema that we
could come up with would be only in draft stage, and can be improved
and modified in subsequent iterations, however, any schema is better
than none to start with. I am referring to EDXML just posted from
oasis, (even early drafts such as pfif and sfif) that can serve as
early references of such efforts.

I wanted to say that while Renato and Chamindra are working on their
summary and notes to be posted to this lis for further discusison, I
wanted to put out a first call for wider participation, we need to
decide how can an xml schema represente effectively who, what, when
(why and how ), in relation to an emergency, and this requires
different perspectives and dimensions to be taken into account

Only the wider community of stakeholders can help us come up with a
valid model, please come in!

cheers

PDM

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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM,  <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Renato and all,g reat to meet and get around doing some thinking along
>  he lines discussed
>
>  while we are still getting our heads around most interesting  issues
>  that were brought on the table
>  I am dazzled by the scale of myanmar and china events, it prompts me
>  to hurry up the process and try to
>  finalize some working schema asap
>
>  will share working notes as we go, look forward
>
>  pdm
>
>  ,
>
>
>
>  On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >  Dear all - our F2F meeting [1] last week was a great success !
>  >
>  >  We discussed a number of Use Cases (focusing on two; "Who/What/Where for
>  > Coordination  Centres" and "Missing People"). We brainstormed the "concepts"
>  > for the emergency framework and used the Use Cases to verify the concepts.
>  >
>  >  We have a lot of material to now document and summarise. We will begin this
>  > process and publish all the details on the wiki.
>  >
>  >  Thanks to all those that attended and IBM for hosting the meeting.
>  >
>  >  Cheers...  Renato Iannella
>  >  NICTA
>  >
>  >  [1] <http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/WashingtonMay2008>
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  Paola Di Maio
>  School of IT
>  www.mfu.ac.th
>  *********************************************
>



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