Re: Ontology for Emergency Response management

Thanks Carl and Nigel.
I really appreciate your inputs and going to use them.

Best,
H

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Nigel Snoad <nigel@bondi-institute.com>wrote:

> On Sensemaking I can also recommend Willem Muren's PhD thesis: *Foundations
> of Sensemaking Support Systems for Humanitarian Crisis Response*
>
>
> http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/center/graduate-school/thesis/muhren.html
>
> --
> Nigel Snoad
> m: +1 646 912 2919
>
> On Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Carl Reed wrote:
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>   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 <hemant@knoesis.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:52 PM
> *To:* paoladimaio10@googlemail.com
> *Cc:* public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
> *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
>
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> --
> Hemant Purohit
> Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)
> http://knoesis.wright.edu/researchers/hemant
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> --
> Hemant Purohit
> Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)
> http://knoesis.wright.edu/researchers/hemant
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Hemant Purohit
Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)
http://knoesis.wright.edu/researchers/hemant