jeff waters

Interoperability, Info Sharing, Open Standards, Emergency Mgmt, REST

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Protege 4.0 ontology editor supports the new OWL 2.0 standard -- http://protege.stanford.edu/download/download.html

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W3C: A new SPARQL working group is forming, currently query language for RDF, and we should support extending to OWL

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NEON is an open source effort by EU to enable distributed end-to-end collaborative ontology development and management

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Univ of Texas health info sciences using RDF as full data format for enabling survey-on-demand system(SODS), also using UMLS and SKOS.

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Classification (distinguishing and naming things) is needed to turn something into a science.

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W3C: POWDER- A more flexible & efficient way to create & manage descriptions of your web pages and resources. See http://tinyurl.com/pae8fk

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REST: Every important piece of your application (service or data) should be uniquely addressable and accessible via URL;

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OASIS: The Distribution Element (DE) is designed to "package" and "address" your emergency information

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Generic approach to info mgmt: Monitor the situation and info - Assess it based on your role - Act and Annotate the info (add your value)

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A message arrives. What is it? "A Class C Bio Alert Under Stage 3 Vetting Advising Response Plan 5". How well do we understand this domain?

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A message arrives. What is it? If all I can do is label it a "message", how well do we understand this domain?

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The terms and definitions we use to describe a domain (e.g. Biology) are different based on our perspective (e.g. Geneticist v. Zookeeper)

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The more we understand a domain, the more specific and detailed are the terms we use to describe it.

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Organic Collaboration is where users collaborate without email, chat, telecons, etc. but where info is seamlessly integrated into user tools

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Issue: Assertively Routing of information is problematic, hard to manage, doesn't scale. Consider: Organic Collaboration

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Issue: Globally Unique Identifiers (guids) needed everywhere. Suggest using URLs. Why not?

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W3C: Well represented at upcoming Semantic Technologies Conference June 14-18 San Jose http://www.semantic-conference.com/

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W3C: Wondering what the eGov initiative is all about? Checkout the detailed doc at http://bit.ly/13WFEQ

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W3C: Checkout XML Piping Language Update -- simple operations on XML docs with conditionals, iteration, and exception handlers.

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"Smart" applications are apps which do something unexpected, but correct! How? By using ontologies for context and to infer your meaning.