Re: [sahana-maindev] Architecture for a collection of Sahana projects

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Nuwan Waidyanatha
<waidyanatha@lirne.net> wrote:
> When developing the Biosurveillance module I found some of the module
> required entities such as Location, Person, etch to have similarities with
> the existing Sahana person, location entities but lacked some attributes and
> abstract thinking; as a result developed own set of tables per requirements.
>
> There are some standards available and emerging as part of the EIIF work on
> the ontologies and taxonomies in relation to defining a person, location,
> and others. Would be nice to see some of these standards incorporated in the
> core as generic abstract entities for future development.

For those of you new to the list and unaware of the EIIF (W3C
Emergency Information Interoperability Framework) group, you can find
references in the WIKI here

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/Main_Page

As mentioned by Nuwan, it would be good for us to gradually import
some of the well know standards identified by this group into Sahana.

chamindra de silva
http://chamindra.googlepages.com

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:14:39 UTC