- From: Frank Fiedrich <fiedrich@gwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:57:19 -0400
- To: public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
The ICDRM published a glossary of terms which also may be helpful: http://www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/publications/PDF/EM_Glossary_ICDRM.pdf Best, -- Frank Gary Berg-Cross wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Frank Fiedrich, Ph.D. Assistant Prof. of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management The George Washington University 1776 G Street, NW, Suite 101 Washington, DC 20052 Phone: +1 (202) 994 2379 Fax: +1 (202) 994 0245 Email: fiedrich@gwu.edu Web: http://www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/People/fiedrich.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------
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