Update on EIIF (Emergency Info Interop Framework) XG and Report

Hi All,

Thought I would provide an update on the Emergency Information Interop
Framework Incubator Group (XG) that we initiated at W3C.

As an incubator group, EIIF XG concluded mid this year, with a final
report and a recommendation for moving which can be found here
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-EIIF-20090806/. To evaluate
feasibility, the group worked on and piloted concepts on the specific
use case of "Who is doing What Where," which is a common information
coordination pattern in this domain. The framework document captures
this exercise (
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-Framework-20090806/ ).
However the group also delivered many valuable by-products, including
a review of emergency management systems, and references to popular
glossaries/control vocabularies and prevalent regulations in the
domain. By no means is this yet comprehensive, but it is certainly a
starting point. The W3C played an important role giving credibility to
this activity and providing an open non-aligned and royalty-free
environment for open participation and collaboration on the goals of
the XG. A proposal has been made to the W3C for continuing this work
under their umbrella that we are awaiting to hear from.

We had a good team of cross-functional contributorson this work that I
would like to especially thank the contributors below:

    * Mandana Sotoodeh, UBC, Canada
    * George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
    * Rebecca E. Curzon, IBM, USA
    * Hillman Mitchell, City of Tukwila, WA, USA
    * Paola Di Maio, Information Systems Analyst and Consultant, Thailand
    * Gary Berg-Cross, EMI, USA
    * Megan Finn, UC Berkeley, USA
    * Colleen Apte, SAIC, USA
    * Bartel van de Walle, ISCRAM, Belgium
    * Paolo Palmero, UN, USA
    * Guido Vetere, IBM, Italy
    * Nigel Snoad, Microsoft, USA
    * Sanjva Weerawarana, WS02, Sri lanka
    * Gavin Treadgold, Kestrel Group, New Zealand
    * Carl Reed, OGC, USA
    * Olle Olsson, SICS, Sweden
    * Kristin Hoskin, Kestrel Group, New Zealand
    * Craig Hubley
    * Renato Iannella, NICTA, Australia
    * Chamindra de Silva, LSF/Virtusa, Sri Lanka

To move this initiative forward at the scale required however we do
need strong involvements and sponsorship by the various practitioner
groups in this domain such as IAEM or NetHope. ISCRAM continues to
support this work with their track on standards and ontologies (
http://www.iscram.org/ISCRAM2010/Track_ISCRAM2010_Standards_Ontologies.pdf
). If you are interested in submitting a paper, please do so.

Meanwhile the data we have gathered on open standards, EM systems,
regulations will continue to be available on the EIIF WIKI at
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/Main_Page. Please feel free
to register and use this to update information and data on standards
and ontologies in the domain. I will also be putting a section to
catalog papers and research on standards and ontologies in this domain
soon.

We are awaiting a conclusion from W3C and will keep you posted on the
next steps. Apart from this if you can make some recommendations on
how we can move this work forward please share your ideas here.

Best Regards,

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

Received on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:25:01 UTC