EM TC Notification, Messages and Methods SC 05/27/03 Meeting Minutes

Notification, Methods and Messages Subcommittee

Emergency Management TC

May 27, 2003

Much thanks to Joyce Kern for taking minutes this week.

Attendees:

Elliott Christian

Joyce Kern

Cathy M Subatch

John Silva

Gary Ham

Art Botterell

Bill Schroeder

Jerry Weltman 

Meeting Notes

Requirements/Use Cases

Art - any more discussion on requirements and/or use cases.  No additional discussions 

Top level of object diagram.

Art send out last week Did everyone get a chance to review.  Any discussion/questions/issues.  

All agreed .. this is the General Structure that we want to use

Start next week with next week copy of data dictionary for top level block - with

items from workshop in VA.

Elliott - send whole thing at once with all changes (not so big of an XML structure)

Art - suggested that we go to www.incident.com/cap site, look under documents,

and grab current data dictionary.  Compare to email Art sent out.  apply

changes from workshop.

GIS Input

Elliott will give Art the input that he gave Art verbally, in writing, for the structure

Incident Notification

Art - other item we have working is incident notification form.

Gary - industry meeting ... based on that, Gary has been given the go-ahead

to make a full schema of incident occurrences

Art - what do messages signify?

Gary - in the documentation for sw, there is a notion of how info is posted

between collaboration groups ... provides access to structure by people who

built info.  Send that info to another operational group that can pull that

information.  It is a structure of information for documenting the incident

itself

Art - XML representation of database structure for an incident.

Gary - this is a usage, accessed provision, ... replication if the information is pulled (update).

Art - one of the functionalities that might be provided would be soap message brokering service

Gary - where authorizations and validation is managed from government offices

Art - mission - controlled information "space" 

Gary - policy of this group is not to limit the data structure

Action Items

Art - next week we will have first review of data dictionary.  Art will not

try to make all the definitions 11179 compliant.  He is looking for assistance for that.

Elliott - separate usage notes from definition.  This will be included in

the same document

Discuss our process for proceeding

Conference:

Art - 3rd week in June is World Disaster Conference in Toronto.  What aspects of

design do we want to focus on?  Do we focus on terminology again, or new

topic?  what are our priorities?  Bill Schroeder is attending this workshop.

Art is as well.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be held Tuesday, June 3 at 9:30am PDT/12:30pm EDT.

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