Work items

This list contains potential work items for the community group. We use it to keep track of potential items until July 19, 2013 – so if you want to add anything to the list, please do so until this deadline. It will the basis for the work of the group after the summer break.

• Overview of existing ontologies, vocabularies (based on results of Disaster 2.0 project)
• Discussion about required level of formalization (SKOS, RDFS, different OWL profiles)
• Brainstrom about use cases where reasoning capabilities are required
• Guidelines for alignment between existing ontologies
• Thinking outside the box: looking at standards in the domain and data sources that are important to "talk to" (such as EDXL or OGC services), but that are not based on semweb tech
• Get in touch with maintainers of important reference lists in the domain to help them publish the lists in more reusable forms
• adaption of existing workflows: how to make the move to semweb tech for an organization as smooth as possible (this is not an emergency information specific item, though)
• reflect on the specific requirements of emergency information, especially timeliness – how well can we actually deal with that?
• Collect existing use cases of SW tech in emergency management (HXL, IATI, MOAC, …) and assess impact
• Harmonize existing vocabularies (e.g., HXL and MOAC) through high-level domain ontology (?)
• Identify and prioritize gaps: what specific requirements does emergency management have concerning semantic annotations, and which of these are not met by existing vocabularies yet?
• Complexity of the models and vocabularies; assessment of the usability — how much effort is needed to quickly utilize such valuable information management resources
• Communicating about and listing the availability of existing datasets about disasters
• Discussing scenarios for use of the data