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Subject: Draft Copy for Review...
Hello Everyone, Below is the
promised draft announcement copy for the upcoming event. Please review and
forward any and all comments no later than COB Monday. Thanks, Jane Emergency Interoperability
“Coordinating
Response Through Open Standards” 29 & 30
September 2009 This fall, OASIS will be launching the
first annual “Emergency Interoperability Summit”. This
event, hosted at the NIST facility in At this event, industry experts will
demonstrate that there is much to be gained from their interoperability, not
only in terms of cost and operational effectiveness for the EM community, but
also in terms of marketability and access to a broader market for tool
developers. To achieve mutual connectivity, tools must adhere to agreed upon
rules about protocols and data formats, with clearly defined semantics. To
facilitate wide scale interoperability, such rules must be defined by
independent bodies and must be accessible publicly as open standards. Highlighted will be the work being done
by OASIS, as part of a coherent framework for EM interoperability in an effort
to incite members from the world wide EM community, industry, institutions and
government agencies to join our on-going standardization efforts. This work
includes: l
the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP),
an Open Standard for Alert and Warning Messages in any medium; l
the Emergency Data Exchange Language
(EDXL) Family, a set of Open Standards for Emergency IT that provides an
workable interoperability framework through: a
Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) Specification that makes packaging and
distributing any kind of Digital Emergency Communication Payload or set of
payloads possible in a uniform way; a Resource
Messaging (EDXL-RM) Specification that provides the means for a uniform method
of arranging and accounting for logistical operations that allows responders to
do their jobs while the resources are managed as automatically as possible; a Hospital
AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE) Specification that provides the means for a
uniform method of reporting a snapshot of available healthcare facilities,
equipment and personnel during emergencies; and, work is
underway on a Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Specification that will provide
the means for a uniform method of reporting critical information for EM
decision making in the most timely way. It's an exciting time to join a new
kind of movement and community dedicated to continuously improving Emergency
Management throughout the entire lifecycle of emergency incidents: l
from planning and preparations
through l
response operations and l
remediation operations to l
after action analysis and evaluation
leading to a new cycle of l
improved planning and preparations
and so on. While we will never leave anyone
behind, it's a great time to join the community and start making a difference.
OASIS and the Emergency Management Member Section invites all levels of
government organizations internationally along with emergency managers and those
from the vendor community to join us this fall at our first annual Summit.
It is important for OASIS to help bridge the gap between first responders,
government agencies and the vendor community. This is a chance for all to see
what is in development and a chance for stakeholders to express their actual
needs. Come witness real-world interoperability demonstrations and listen to the
experts on what interoperability actual means to the public. Draft Audience List
– by job title… * disaster planning and preparedness managers Any others? Maybe something reaching those in the
international community? Not sure about… ****volunteers, firefighters,
NOAA
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