Re: [emergency-comment] Public Comment

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Definitely. RDF happens to be one of the bees in my bonnet. We will 
also want to get some feedback from folks involved with the semantic 
web initiatives, which is where RDF shines, and is also how specific 
libraries of resources can be assembled on the fly when combined with 
topic maps. Sorting and grading those resources requires a capability 
we don't have yet, but that's where "intelligent" software can enter 
into the picture. This also happens to be a large part of my interest 
in the healthcare side of EM.

I am copying this to a colleague who may be interested to note that 
RDF is beginning to take hold conceptually, at least.

Ciao,
Rex

(Manos, we should chat, maybe Friday sometime like late afternoon your time?)

At 6:28 AM +0000 11/5/03, comment-form@oasis-open.org wrote:
>Comment from: l.freudinger@dfrc.nasa.gov
>
>We have briefly studied the CAP 1.0 schema in search of weaknesses 
>in its applicability to future airborne sensor systems that may or 
>may not support emergency management.
>
>I am happy to report that v1.0 appears usable as is for prototyping purposes. 
>
>The one area we see for improvement is to formally designate a place 
>for optional Resource Description Framework (RDF) data.
>
>For more info on RDF see
>http://www.w3.org/RDF/
>or
>http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/
>
>This tweak to Common Alerting Protocol establishes a path toward 
>incorporating information that would be required to automate 
>portions of complex decision support infrastucture.
>
>A bit of background on our application: 
>
>We are considering two aspects of a future network-centric world:
>
>1) Uninhabited air vehicles carry scientific or earth-observing 
>instruments.  These systems report their findings when necessary via 
>CAP-formatted messaging. In the long term we are talking here about 
>messaging standards for large scale sensor webs used as a component 
>of decision support infrastructure.
>
>2) Vehicles of all types expand their use of systems health 
>monitoring and proactive or condition-based maintenance.  For 
>example, a structural subsystems monitor may detect imminent failure 
>of an engine pylon or horizontal stabilizer of a transport aircraft. 
>A CAP-formatted message alerts decisionmakers with just enough 
>advanced warning to avoid catastrophic loss of life.  In contrast to 
>item #1 that looks at geographically distributed sensor webs, this 
>item looks at the embedded systems that provide safety-related 
>information for individual machines (airplanes in our case).
>
>I am recommending the explicit accommodation of RDF elements as a 
>way to pave the path toward enabling so-called "intelligent" 
>software to optimally leverage
>CAP messages.
>
>Sincerely
>Larry Freudinger
>NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
>
>Acknowledgement:  Thanks to colleague Carl E. Sorenson, software 
>engineer with ManTech Int'l for providing inputs on this topic.
>
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