- From: Martin Hepp <mhepp@computer.org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:27:42 +0200
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- CC: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, ivan@w3.org
Dear Tim, all: In the DIP project [1], a prototype of applying Semantic Web services technology to emergency planning was developed. More information is available at http://www.essexinfo.net/dip/ A screencast of the prototype is at the following address: http://irs-test.open.ac.uk/sgis-dev/vlad/sgis.htm Best Martin [1] http://dip.semanticweb.org ----------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-mail: martin.hepp@deri.org web: http://www.heppnetz.de skype: mfhepp office: +43 512 507 6465 Check eClassOWL, the first real-world e-business ontology for products and services in OWL at http://www.heppnetz.de/eclassOWL Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > 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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