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[Jeff Waters<jeff.waters@navy.mil>]

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        Please review these minutes from the January 26th, 2012 meeting of the Emergency Management Reference Information Model (RIM) Subcommittee meeting for approval at our next meeting, subject to any specified changes. Thanks.
        
-- Jeff Waters

Document Name: DRAFT-EDXL-RIM-SC-MtgNotes-01-26-2012.doc

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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. )
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Submitter: Jeff Waters
Group: EM Reference Information Model SC
Folder: Meeting Notes
Date submitted: 2012-01-26 11:41:34