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Subject: RE: [huml] NYAM Portal Collaboration
An attempt at applying HumanML to the issues listed in that article would focus on the roles of the communicating individuals, not the individuals. To do otherwise is to profile the person instead of the role. The culture is the enterprise/business model first, and then the culture of the individual. 1. The role has less data collection requirements. That makes it doable, and is isomorphic to the requirements for role playing games. A role play based system enables individuals to be changed (say, a shift change in a hospital or a police station). Business rules apply predominantly to the role. 2. Collection of data on individuals is not only very extensive, expensive and noisy (people lie), it is a non-starter in many environments and for many people. A public portal has to deal with this problem directly and with cognizance of the political implications. Particularly when combined with disaster management and planning, a role based model is required. One then augments that with personnel/master name indexed data for deriving relationships among individuals with respect to their assigned role. len From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] Dear Colleagues, (Note that I am posting this subsequent to sending it out to the originally intended addressees. I want to provide it to our lists now, with many thanks to Chandra and James for their proofreading and feedback, and, of course to Russell and Ranjeeth for their usual contributions to the overall effort as well as this specific project. So please feel free to offer your own informaton, comments or suggestions.) Please excuse my metaphorical dust, as we assess reconstituting the effort to produce a "Proof of Concept" example Web site for the New York Academy of Medicine, (NYAM), Public Healthcare Preparedness Portal Project. This project was originally conceived to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in a group booth sponsored by the Emergency Management XML Consortium and DMI-Services featuring a multi-participant distributed network (LAN) demonstration of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and DMI-Services. The demonstration project focused on LAN-based distribution of an alert based on a hypothetical scenario: a terrorist attack employing a chemical agent impacting municipal, county, state and federal agency jurisdictions in the city of St. Louis. Unfortunately, this project was terminated prior to presentation due to inadequate scheduling and preparation, uncertainty regarding on-site equipment availability, and Web connectivity. The participants who have indicated a willingness to continue this project will be acknowledged in all materials supplied by this project for public dissemination and include NYAM, Humanmarkup.org, Inc., Oracle Corporation, and DMI-Services. This acknowledgement will include the collateral contributions of The Fund for the City of New York, through whose technology consulting program the participants were introduced. Similarly, The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), whose Web Services for Remote Portlets v1.0, (WSRP v1.0) standard and whose Common Alerting Protocol v0.9n (CAP v0.9n) Committee Specification will be featured as a demonstration of both the interoperability of these specifications and of the potential for a national infrastructure to employ such open, public standards in the public interest. Thanks will also be acknowledged to the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, the OASIS Human Markup Technical Committee and the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Technical Committee for their work in producing the specification, and supporting the overall collaboration effort. The New York Academy of Medicine, Humanmarkup.org, Inc. and Oracle Corporation form a qualified Collaborative Operations Group, (COG) for the purpose of beta testing the Interoperability Services component of the Disaster Management Interoperability Services protocol as designated by that governing body. What I would like to do is to review the goals, roles and responsibilities of the parties who expressed willingness to continue with this work after the public demonstration at the Global Homeland Security Conference September 24-26 in Washington, D.C., which this COG elected to forego. I also want to include an update of the scenario I want to play out in the demonstration portal, powerpoint presentation and paper that will accompany the presentation. Therefore, I am putting that report in a separate attachment with this e-mail. I have delayed my attempt to reconstitute this effort until I had at least one new opportunity to make a presentation of this effort and until after a key participant of the effort, Mr. Michael Freedman, of Oracle Corporation, has had time to recover from his recent bicycle injuries. I am pleased to announce that Mr. Russell Ruggiero and I as representatives of both Humanmarkup.org, Inc., and the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee have obtained an invitation to make a presentation to the Federal Enterprise Architecture, Collaboration Expedition Workshop scheduled for December 9, 2004. This is a well focused and strategic venue, which can be publicized within the federal agency communities and should attract interest from a broad audience. In addition, we may also have an opportunity to make a late-breaking news presentation and/or participate in a Town Hall Meeting on Emerging Technologies at XML 2003 Conference, which is scheduled for that week as well. This could require a condensed version of the workshop presentation. This may be a logistically difficult proposition since the Workshop is in Arlington, Virginia, while the Conference is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is also somewhat unlikely that this second presentation can be accomplished without undue haste given that the purpose for that presentation could only be fulfilled by a fortunate series of developments allowing key components from other, related efforts, such as the Map Symbology working group, chartered by the Homeland Security working group of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). However, having said that, there is a distinct lack of any Emergency/Disaster Management-related topics or seminars being offered at the XML 2003 Conference, and it may be such a timely presentation that some resources presently not earmarked for that venue might be allocated, and that would virtually necessitate that we put forward the effort necessary to prepare and deliver this version of our presentation. I will be outlining my own thoughts about the necessary emphasis for each of these presentations using the same general material for both. At least in part, the impetus for obtaining the invitation to make a presentation to the Collaboration Expedition Workshop came in response to the article published in Direct Marketing Review that Mr. Ruggiero and I wrote, entitled, iAre We Ready for the Next Web?" and which was published 17 October, 2004. See DM Review online: http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/dmdirect/dmdirect_article.cfm?EdID=7548&is sue=101703 Participants in this effort might want to familiarize themselves with the specifics of the article in order to understand more thoroughly how this article serves as a springboard for both the Workshop presentation and the potential Conference presentation. I am respectfully requesting reconfirmation from active partners with some indication of how best to coordinate this effort with each of you considering your respective schedules and the the presentation date, December 6, 2003. I am also requesting from all addressees your comments, suggestions, issues and concerns, and, of course, any aid you think you might be able to contribute to this effort. Best Regards, Rex Brooks -- Rex Brooks President, Stabourne Communications Design Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc. Co-Chair, Secretary, OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee Chair OASIS Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup Language Subcommittee Member Web Services for Remote Portlets Technical Committee Chair Web Services for Remote Portlets-Markup Subcommittee Member OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee Member, OASIS Emergency Management Geospatial Information Services Subcomittee GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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