- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:01:55 -0400
- To: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
I had an exciting visit from the students in Sri Lanka who had just received an award for their open source disaster management system, Sahana. http://www.sahana.lk/ Discussing their system, which has just received a Free Software Foundation award, I remembered many conversations about the desirability for wide interoperability in emergence and disaster situations. I suggested the Sahana folks provide RDF feeds of, for example, missing persons, found persons, shelters, relive groups and resources on the ground, and other things they track. I started a wiki page to capture a little of this http://esw.w3.org/topic/DisasterManagement which is like all wikis open to additions! It is missing, I imagine, many pointers to government efforts. If you know of activity around disaster management technology which could possible be involved in or shed light on this, then please mail ivan@w3.org or add it to the wiki. A possible next step would be an Incubator Group (XG) for a diaster management ontology development. Disaster response is much about preparedness. If much relevant data is available in RDF, when a disaster strikes, those on the ground and across the world will be able to use it to know what best to do to respond. Tim Berners-Lee
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