- From: Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:52:24 -0400
- To: Chamindra de Silva <chamindra@opensource.lk>
- Cc: paola.dimaio@gmail.com, public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
I contacted Eli Rohn last week to learn more about his work and his response is below, summarizing 2 articles he sent me...he hasn't published these and asked me not to distribute them, so I will digest sone of the ideas on EM vocabulary in the 2nd article. This might at least earn a a pointer/reference in our report if it aligns to what we come up with. -- Gary Berg-Cross,Ph.D. gbergcross@gmail.com http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross SOCoP Executive Secretary Principal, EM&I Semantic Technology Potomac, MD 301-762-5441 ********************************************************** Gary, Thank you for contacting me. While I have not pursued emergency vocabularies analysis further, I have two journal articles that have been accepted and waiting publication which might be of interest to the W3C EIIF group. One is specific for emergencies. It proposes something novel that doesn't exists - a quantifiable, objective, emergency scale based on a mathematical model I have developed. Think of it as the Richter scale for emergencies. The abstract and a brief explanation I prepared for a poster are attached. (I am currently a visiting Prof' at Ruppin so I gave them the dubious honor.) Consequently, you may want to include two entries in your group's proposed standard vocabulary: (a) Rohn Emergency Scale, which is a vector with 3 entries representing the emergency function f=(S,T,D) (b) Rohn Equidistance Emergency Level which is a scalar. Let me shed some more light... any emergency can be defined using three orthogonal dimensions: (a) Scope (b) Topographical change (or lack thereof) and (c) speed of change (Delta). The intersection of the three dimensions provides a detailed scale for defining emergencies. The scale provides a 3D surface for professional and advanced usage, which is convertible to an equidistance numeric scale for public communications. Using an equidistance numeric scale is universally usable: it does not require meaning preservation in translation from one natural language to another as is the case with nominal scales; it eliminates misinterpretation by laic audience, as is the case with logarithmic scales, such as the Richter scale. To the best of my knowledge, the article is scheduled to appear in the next issue of The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM). And, if Ruppin finds a hidden treasure to fund my attendance at the ISCRAM 2009 conference I might risk a public appearance and explain the scales in person. It would be nice to meet you there should we both attend. The second article is hopefully of interest to any group that wants to design any type of a vocabulary using almost any of the contemporary data definition languages. It conveys what could be seen (mistakenly) as bad news to the computing industry and academia, but I offer a solution in a follow up article which I am in the process of polishing. I have attached select pages from the article. To open the PDF you will need a password. It is W3CEIIF. Kindly do not share it with anyone else until its formal publication. Please let me know if I could be of further assistance. Kind regards Eli Gary Berg-Cross,Ph.D. gbergcross@gmail.com http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross SOCoP Executive Secretary Principal, EM&I Semantic Technology Potomac, MD 301-762-5441 On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Chamindra de Silva <chamindra@opensource.lk> wrote: > This would be a good reference for our report. How exhaustive did you find > his paper? scope of standards he covered? > > I have added these references to the final report, in the following section > for now > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/EIIF_Final_Report#Existing_standards_and_technology > > chamindra de silva > http://chamindra.googlepages.com > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Eli Rohn reported on "A Survey of Schema Standards and Portals for >> Emergency Management and Collaboration" at ISCRAM 07 >> >> Here are the schemas (not Portals) he reported on in Table 1: >> Emergency Schemas and Portals >> >> ANML Advisory and Notification Markup Language facilitating emanation >> of data relating to software vulnerabilities US Schema >> >> CAP Common Alerting Protocol to collect and relay instantaneously and >> automatically all types of hazard warnings and reports locally, >> regionally and nationally for input into a wide variety of >> dissemination systems US Schema >> >> >> EDXL Facilitate emergency information sharing and data exchange >> across the local, state, tribal, national and non-governmental >> organizations of different professions that provide emergency response >> and management services >> US Schema >> >> IEEE 1512 >> A family of standard messages for traffic incident management, public >> safety, hazardous material incident, and management of entities >> external to centers. >> US Schema >> >> LGCL A controlled vocabulary for local government and community >> resources categorized in a hierarchical structure under headings >> familiar to citizens. >> UK Schema >> >> IPSV The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary is an 'encoding scheme' >> for populating the e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS) subject >> element of metadata. >> UK Schema >> >> RWE Notification of Road Works and Highway related Events among local >> and central government, emergency services and the media >> UK Schema >> >> SDEP Street events Data Exchange Protocol >> UK Schema >> >> HCCHE >> A schema that enables electronic exchange of highway related inquiries >> and problem reports received from the public. >> UK Portal and Schema >> >> RTA >> Facilitates the exchange of road traffic accident data between the >> Compensation Recovery Unit and the National Health Service for the >> recovery of insurance compensation to injured parties. >> UK Portal and Schema >> >> Gary Berg-Cross,Ph.D. >> gbergcross@gmail.com >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross >> SOCoP Executive Secretary >> Principal, EM&I Semantic Technology >> Potomac, MD >> 301-762-5441 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chamindra de Silva >> <chamindra@opensource.lk> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:16 PM, <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Assessing Interoperability in Emergency Management Standards >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04494315 >> >> >> > >> > Paola this would be a reference for the gap analysis we require. >> > >> > chamindra de silva >> > http://chamindra.googlepages.com >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- > >
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