Group call on Nov 27, 2013

Participants Hemant Purohit, Paola Di Maio, Joseph Pollack, Daniel Link, Sigi Kluckner

Notes

• Quick Introduction
• Mission statement overview
  • Hemant: Our focus on both organization-centric to practical-usability centric approach
• Hemant: Focus for the Short Paper ISCRAM-2014: (Deadline: Jan 13th) or other conferences ?[possible to get extension of 2 weeks by track-chairs for full paper if group wants: deadline: Dec 15]
  • Position paper to inform the emergency community about this initiative (ISCRAM and/or other?)
  • Explanation of mission statement focus and glossary
  • Comparison of the existing standards and focusing on WHY there is a gap in terms of practical usage of the information organization using existing standards
• Joseph: Overviewing the CrisisMappers group meeting on common information needs here
• Paola: suggests reusing some of the content of past W3C report for the paper http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/XGR-EIIF-20090806/
• Paola and Daniel: Future connection: W3C group on Semantic Web Interfaces, we should cross reference with them to capture the part of how to interface faster and efficiently with the info.
• Joseph: Voice-based interfaces

Task

• Review the past W3C report and come up with the gaps in the existing standards, so as to enable discussion on the concepts to include for application/practitioner centric approach