Description
At the January 26th, 2010 meeting of the Emergency Management Reference Information Model Subcommittee, the members discussed the following topics:
1. TOPIC: How is the work going on the Tracking of Emergency Clients? (Answer: Lew explained that the Requirements document for a potential EDXL standard “Tracking of Emergency Clients” is nearing completion. This requirements work is performed through DHS with stakeholder involvement. The requirements then eventually come to OASIS for potential standards development. The current work is building upon the previous “Tracking of Emergency Patients”. Emergency “clients” are those who are being evacuated but do not have specific medical issues. The goal is to be able to locate people displaced during an emergency for a variety of purposes including allowing people to find loved ones.)
2. TOPIC: Is there a potential process for streamlined tool/application development from our EDXL specifications? (Answer: Yes. One path forward is to develop UML models which can be used in data modeling tools to generate code and a database definition language, which then need to be cleaned up and offered as open products for the community. Rex has generated an initial UML model for the DE 2.0, which could be the basis of such work for the DE. Rex previously did this work for Resource Messsaging. Lew may be doing similar work, generating a UML model, as part of his efforts on Emergency Clients. The consensus was that these types of products and tools, as developed by members with existing project resources, should be encouraged, aligned, and shared, if possible, with the community to, as Rex succinctly stated, “make interoperability unavoidable.” )
3. TOPIC 3: Is there a useful engineering report on data modeling that we could leverage? (Answer: Yes. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed a domain modeling handbook. This will be a great resource and is one of the engineering reports resulting from the OGC Web Services Testbed #8. Lew will notify us when the report is available for review. )
