Input on EIIF vocabularies

Paola et al,

I've had a little time to search for some relevant vocabularies.  Here
is one that seems to provide some useful definitions and hierarchies
for terms:

GEMET, the GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, developed by
the European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources under contract
to the European Environment Agency.


Currently published and managed by the European Environment
Information and Observation Network.

GEMET is a compilation of several multilingual vocabularies, and has
been designed as a general thesaurus, aiming to define a core general
terminology for the environment. The current version is available in
27 languages, and contains over 6,000 descriptors.

See http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet   for the vocabularies.  They
have and extensive list  of Themes each of which has terms.  So they
have a "  disasters, accidents, risk " theme with relevant terms such
as:

Emergency plan  Concept definition:
Program of procedures to be undertaken in the event of a sudden,
urgent and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
the environment. (Source: RHW)
 	
broader terms
 	 	safety measure

 	
narrower terms
 	 	risk exposure plan

 	 	warning plan

Scope note:
Program of procedures to be undertaken in the event of a sudden,
urgent and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
the environment. (Source: RHW)

Groups: RISKS, SAFETY
Themes: disasters, accidents, risk


There's similiar info on emergency relief   Concept definition:
Money, food or other assistance provided for those surviving a sudden
and usually unexpected occurrence requiring immediate action,
especially an incident of potential harm to human life, property or
the environment. (Source: RHW) etc.

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 Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM,  <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, today I started entering the terms used in our framework in Knoodl,
> http://www.knoodl.com/ui/groups/Emergency_Management/vocab/EIIF_Glossary/entry/
>
> It's still a very rough exercise and  sketchy, cause some info is still not
> clear (to me at least) or missing altogether
>
> In addition to the learning curve of understanding where all the knoodl
> buttons are and what to do (it's suppoed to be easy but there are things I
> cannot do yet, will need help asap!)
>  a few things are not yet clear that need to be defined further before we
> can proceed, see the enclosed draft document
>
> we need to define what is a property, a class, a subclass and, instance,
> relations etc
>
> these choices can be changed later at any time, so we can discuss-rediscuss
> at leisure what would work best for everybody
> in the meantime, but in the meantime this exercise could help us to clarify
> at least in part what the current documetn and corresponding diagram
> represent would be helpful
>
> also some terms are still  a bit obscure, such as 'interval'  in location
>
> I attach my working notes, which would benefit from input from the group, I
> will not be able to look at this again for another few days
>
> please provide feedback before our final deadline, and I ll enter the
> resources as specified by this group
>
> btw, today I got a set of terms from FEMA, that would be nice to map to our
> framework at some point
>
> anyone wanted to play around with KNoodl, just join the community and you ll
> be in in no time
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> have a nice weekend all!
>
>
> cheers
> PDM



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