Group call on Nov 13, 2013

Participants: Eva Blomqvist, Brandon Greenberg, Hemant Purohit, Sigi Kluckner, Tomi Kauppinen, Carsten Keßler

Notes:

Mission statement:

• Group is not the place to host vocabularies (re. Renato’s proposal to "publish semantic emergency information ontologies")
• However, we can of course discuss new ontologies for areas that are not covered by existing ontologies

Glossary: - Terms we have so far:

• Crisis
• Decision maker
• Disaster
• Emergency
• Emergency information
• Information exchange
• NGO
• Ontology
• Practitioner
• Response
• Response capacity
• Standard vocabularies
• Vocabulary

• -> continue this as we go along!
• Collect existing definitions from these sources (collect potentially conflicting definitions with sources):

• OASIS
• HXL (and its term sources)
• [[1]] (Bart would need to translate)
• ISO TC 223 social security
• Inter-agency standing committee
• OCHA handbooks?
• For the technical part: http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/

Idea: Write a short paper for ISCRAM?

• Deadline January 13th for short papers
• Scope the work in this group in the context of existing standards and vocabularies
• Describe tensions that we have discovered (e.g. between large-scale and small-scale disasters)
• Include Joseph’s graph “definition”
• Ask whole group about who wants to contribute

Organize group meeting at ISCRAM?

• Best next opportunity where some of us will be there
• if a large enough group of us is going, organize a one day work meeting
• Eva: SMILE workshop will be proposed again for ESWC 2014
• [[2]]
• 25–29 MAY 2014
• Other opportunity: OXHIP [[3]]
• 19-20 JULY 2014

Tasks

• Eva: Put creating ontologies into mission statement
• Christopher Brewster: move the background work form the Disaster 2.0 project over to the group
• Carsten: Ask group who wants to contribute to the paper and who has access to ISO TC 223 [[4]]