Re: Updated Final Report

Nice final report. The effort is much appreciated.

Is it OK to share this with the OGC membership?

I do have one issue - sorry for bringing this to your attention so late in
the process :-) I should have read the report earlier. My apologies.

The section is not a true reflection of the current state of affairs for
standards that are used in the EM and related communities.

Existing emergency interoperability standards

The group also catalogued a list of relevant emergency management
standards in the WIKI at the URL
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/EMInfoStdsReview. The most
significant work done on standards is by the OASIS group in the creation
of EDXL (Emergency Data Exchange Language) and CAP (Common Alerting
Protocol). Others have included the development of PFIF (People Finder
Interchange Format) that came out of the Katrina People Finder Project.
Recent standards developed by the state include NIEM (National Information
Exchange Model), CWML, TWML (Cyclone and Tsunami Warning Markup Language,
respectively). However, unfortunately a lot of these standards suffer from
being confined and biased to one particular nation. A more global and
public approach is required for better acceptances. Disasters certainly do
not constrain themselves to national boundaries.

With regard to the OGC, all OGC standards (one has only to look to the
list of contributors) are very international in character and development.
One nation does not overly influence the development of any one OGC
standard. I think that it is a mistake to think that the work of OASIS is
the only relevant standards work of significance to the EM community!!

By way of example, the following projects EM, DM, and/or Homeland Security
related and make significant use of OGC, ISO, and other standards:

1. GEOSS - Global Earth Observation System of Systems (Disasters thread
(http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss_di.shtml)
2. GMES - Global Monitoring for Environmental Security
3. OSIRIS - Open architecture for Smart and Interoperable networks in Risk
management based on In-situ Sensors)
4. ORCHESTRA - Mentioned in the final report but not elaborated on. As
this is the architecture that will be used for all of Europe for Risk and
Disaster mitigation . . .
5. CGDI (Canada Geospatial Data Infrastructure) EM apps -
http://cgdi.gc.ca/en/communities/publicsafety/index.html
6. Taiwan Debris Flow prediction and response system

And the list goes on. By the way, none of these projects currently use any
of the US centric encodings - such as NIEM or EDXL. Instead, the focus has
been more on developing a content model that is encoding tool agnostic and
then using an XML grammar such as GML for the physical encoding.

I hope that this information helps. If you cannot include any of this in
the final report, then I understand.

Regards

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO
OGC

> Hi All,
>
> Have now completed all sections of the final report. Rebecca also did
> a review of the report yesterday and made some modifications.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/EIIF_Final_Report
>
> I have also added a section to acknowledge and recognise all key
> contributors to this initiative (do email me if I missed anyone).
>
> Please do review the report and lets discuss any changes on the call.
>
> thanks,
>
> --
> chamindra de silva
> http://chamindra.googlepages.com
>
>

Received on Monday, 29 June 2009 21:10:23 UTC