Emergency Information Systems Interop Workshop for better preparedness @ ISCRAM 2011

[Chamindra de Silva]

Dear All,

I would like to announce that we are organizing an emergency/disaster information systems interop workshop for the next ISCRAM 2011. The interop workshop will be an environment where software vendors and information systems solution providers can bring in their systems for testing against popular information exchange standards such as PFIF, CAP, GeoRSS, EDXL Standards, GIS Standards, etc. The structure will be based on the Apache interop workshops. More importantly we will want to test, improve and validate information exchange between systems for certain popular pre-defined use-cases utilizing these standards. Thereby the results of this workshop will serve better preparedness by assuring that the systems that participate are able to exchange data effectively and work more efficiently in partnership at the time of disaster response.

The interop workshop will be part of the information systems interop standards track, where you can also submit research papers, work in progress papers, practitioner presentations covering best practices and demos for inclusion in ISCRAM. We are also welcoming presentations on new, existing and emerging interop standards for educational purposes to help improve awareness, facilitate feedback and adoption.

Participants interested in participating for the interop workshop can submit their solutions/products/demos/functional prototypes as a demo for this track.

Further submission details can be found at:
  http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/pdf/tracks/information_systems_interop_standards.pdf

For information of the ISCRAM 2011 conference the main website is:
  http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/

We look forward to your participation to this much needed exercise. If you have any suggestion on this track please do not hesitate to contact myself, Renato Iannella or Tom de Groeve. We also want to form a steering committee for the interop workshop, so do let us know if you would like to join that.

thanks,

Chamindra de Silva
http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/ChamindraS

[Gisli Olafsson]

Great initiative Chamindra. I am happy to support this in any way I can and will see if I can get my old colleagues in the commercial world to invite some of the commercial vendors to this also, because it is important to have interoperability between the H-FOSS solutions and the commercial solutions also.

 

Cheers,

 

Gisli

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[Chamindra de Silva]

Good to hear it Gisli. Certainly ISCRAM is a good neutral venue to test information exchange between H-FOSS and commercial solutions. We welcome that.

You are most welcome to join our steering committee for the interop workshop. We have a few months (till May) to plan and put some good structure for the workshop in place. Again I was planning to base it on the Apache Interop Workshops, which I have been to in the past.

Chamindra