Fwd: Re: [emergency] Long Term Liaisons

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Allen, GIS SC, Eliot, Carl,

I am forwarding the second note I received from Carl Reed yesterday. 
I have not included the April 2003 CIPI zip file because it is 2.23Mb 
and I wanted to give Allen, the GIS SC, and Eliot the choice of 
having me send it separately since some govt and corporate  IT email 
clients won't accept large files.

At the same time, Carl, even though you said that you had joined the 
EMTC I note that your name has not yet been added to the roster, so, 
let me see if I can explain the procedure for joining the TC and 
getting access to call info, which I am copying from the note Eliot 
sent to me when I was encountering the same process for joining the 
GIS Subcommittee. I have changed it for the EMTC

>First, go to the OASIS home page and click on "Members Only".
>Once you supply your userid and password, you should be at
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/members/
>
>Next, click on "All Groups" from the pick list on the left side.
>This should take you to
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/
>
>Look for "Emergency Management TC" and click on it.
>Now you should be at
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency
>
>Just above the "Group Description", click on the hyperlink that
says "Join This Group".

The chair, Allen Wyke will be notified with a request to approve you 
as a prospective member, and you will be added to the voting members 
roster after you attend 3 successive TC meetings or 60 days passes.

You can then access the calendar tab on the TC page for Members and 
click on the dates that show the meeting icons (telephone receivers 
for teleconferences and cartoon-style message bubbles for face to 
face meetings, etc.) for info.

As a chair of another TC and two other SCs, I had never signed up for 
a TC or SC other than as a founding member or during the process of 
forming SCs, so I actually didn't know how to do that until 
yesterday, when I had to have it explained to me, even though it 
seems simple in hindsight. However, it just shows you that I can look 
right at something and fail to see it, and I'm a graphic designer by 
trade!

My last note: if any of you are going to SIGGRAPH 2003, and are 
interested in the Cartography BOF meeting, the open source geospatial 
VR project mentioned below is the 3Map Planet-Earth project included 
in my long term liaison message. As with the e-gov meeting Eliot 
attended last week, I would love to hear about this year's carto BOF, 
and here is the info:

Hi ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Colleagues:

Just another email on our annual ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF
session:

http://www.siggraph.org/~rhyne/carto/

Our session is set for:

Wednesday of the SIGGRAPH 2003 week (July 30th),
12:30 - 1:30 PM in Room 24B of the Convention Center. 

Chris Thorne and Viveka Weiley will discuss their
open source geospatial VR project. Other presenters
are welcome. If you are interested, please send me an
email -> (rhyne@siggraph.org).

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Smiles... Theresa-Marie

Theresa-Marie Rhyne
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Director
rhyne@siggraph.org

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Multimedia/Visualization Specialist
Learning Technology Service
NC State University

>From: "Carl Reed" <creed@opengis.org>
>To: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com>
>Subject: Re: [emergency] Long Term Liaisons
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:36:13 -0600
>X-Priority: 3
>X-Rcpt-To: <rexb@starbourne.com>
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>
>Hi Rex -
>
>Thanks. The attached are the slides from the CIPI demonstration (April of
>this year) that was done in Windsor, Canada.
>
>Also, how do I get information on upcoming conference calls? Am I still
>learning the OASIS process. A bit different than the OGC P&P :-)
>
>Cheers
>
>Carl
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com>
>To: "Carl Reed" <creed@opengis.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [emergency] Long Term Liaisons
>
>
>>  Hi Carl,
>  >
>>  I passed this information along to our TC meeting today. I suspect
>>  that liaison efforts will be getting underway come fall. I would be
>>  happy to receive the slide set on CIPI work, and share it among the
>>  TC, and the GIS Subcommittee.
>>
>>  Thanks very much,
>>  Rex
>>
>>  >Rex -
>>  >
>>  >I am now also a member of the EMTC. I am the Executive Director of the
>>  >OpenGIS Consortium Specification Program. As you may know, the OGC
>members
>>  >have done a number of interoperability demonstrations over the last
>several
>>  >years. Many of these demonstrations have had emergency service scenarios
>as
>>  >the demonstration focus. The latest EM focused demonstration was for an
>>  >interoperability inititiatve called CIPI-1 (Critical Infrastructure
>>  >Protection Institutive). In these demonstrations, multiple OGC members
>work
>>  >collaboratively to identify, document, and test interface specifications
>>  >that enable interoperable solutions to be built and deployed. I would be
>>  >happy to send you a slide set that captures the essence of the CIPI work.
>We
>>  >also have an ongoing effort called OGC Web Services. Within the OWS
>>  >framework, we have been working on specifications for Web Alert
>>  >Notification, Sensor Web (metadata and collection), and service
>registries.
>>  >All of this work is germane to the interoperability requirements in the
>EM
>>  >domain.
>>  >
>>  >We also have a number of existing (and widely implemented) specifications
>>  >that cover such interoperability pain points as coordinate reference
>>  >systems, XML encoding of features and geometry, web mapping, and
>transparent
>>  >access to vector data.
>>  >
>>  >Therefore, I would be more than happy to help with a liaison activity
>with
>>  >the EMTC. I believe that the work of the OGC and our members in terms of
>>  >standards and specifications for geospatial data and service
>>  >interoperability is a key technology component of an EM architecture.
>>  >
>>  >Your thoughts are most welcome.
>>  >
>>  >Regards
>>  >
>>  >Carl Reed, PhD
>>  >Executive Director
>>  >OGC Specification Program
>  > >
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