Re: Ontology for Emergency Response management

Hemant -

I would check out the crisis and humanitarian support communities for incredibly rich set of applications, information exchange capabilities, crowdsourcing data fusion, and so forth.

http://crisismappers.net/
http://www.ushahidi.com/about-us
http://sahanafoundation.org/

There are many examples of these groups supporting responses to EM and disaster events, such as:

 http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/1640
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/networks/haiti

Obviously from an OGC standards perspective but lots of use cases, examples, etc.

Regards

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO
OGC

From: Hemant Purohit 
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:52 PM
To: paoladimaio10@googlemail.com 
Cc: public-xg-eiif 
Subject: Re: Ontology for Emergency Response management

Hi all,  
Following up the search, I just wanted to update you about HXL- Humanitarian Exchange Language project: https://sites.google.com/site/hxlproject/ which seemed promising to my use-case.
Also, I meant 'sensemaking' as better coordination of emergency response organizations, thanks to Jay for pointing out.

Best,
Hemant



On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Hemant Purohit <hemant@knoesis.org> wrote:

  Thanks Paola.  
  That is what I was worrying that the information exchange framework was proposed but left to users to extend for specific use-case implementation and so, I was on look out if anyone attempted to start making ontology using that. We are working on a NSF funded project on organizational sensemaking during emergency response (http://knoesis.org/research/semsoc/projects/socs). Therefore, our interest lies in the model for coordination aspect between actors of emergency response phase. I am planning now to build upon the framework you guys recommended, so I shall get back to you for further questions. :) 

  I really appreciate your response.
  Best,
  Hemant 

  On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

    Herman 

    Thanks for getting in touch-


    depends what you mean by ontology
    (heard that before?)

    As far as I know, the link you paste summarises the work done, and is the model
    we developed and evaluated, 

    it can be considered a form of domain ontology itself (not yet encoded as such, but the conceptual elements in terms of entities and relations are there)

    it  could also form the basis of an ontological representation for something that needs to evolve from there
    (ie, the diagrams could be converted into rdf/owl wirh relatively limited effort)

    However, before coding the ontology, you may want to scope out some purpose/requirement/task

    What are you trying to do?

    Not sure if my colleagues agree, but a general ontology which is not modelled to fulfil some requirement would be of limited usefulness

    It would be great if you could use/reference/evolve the work done here

    Let us know please what you are working on, and how can we help

    cheers

    PDM

    On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Hemant Purohit <hemant@knoesis.org> wrote:

      Dear all, 
      I am trying to get the ontology from W3C incubator group's resources on the Emergency Response for my research purpose, but did not get success. Can any one please tell me where can I get the ontology for modeling the proposed framework http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-Framework-20090806/


      Help much appreciated!
      Best,
      Hemant






  -- 
  Hemant Purohit
  Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)
  http://knoesis.wright.edu/researchers/hemant





-- 
Hemant Purohit
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)
http://knoesis.wright.edu/researchers/hemant