ISCRAM Interop Workshop Preparations

[Chamindra de Silva]

(copying a few others from ISCRAM, HFOSS and CC - sorry for cross-posting)

I am in agreement with Glenn that focusing on PFIF specifically might not be of value to participants. What we decided to do during the last TCI Missing person meetup is to rather run the interop workshop based on various real life interop challenges that we have faced during disaster response around missing persons. The interop standard is ultimately a response to those challenges and is only a recommended mechanism to enable interop, but there are other mechanisms which might be appropriate and efficient between certain systems. The objective of the workshop is to verify our systems can talk each other correctly and that data passes efficiently, such that we are better prepared to work together during am actual response effort.

Here is what I have done so far to prepare for the event:

1) Defined a template for capturing the missing person interop scenarios and results

  see http://www.humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/missing_person_data_exchange

  Please review and improve upon the template.

  Glenn, based on your scenario doc, which I liked, can take a lead to help us define the scenarios in general between systems.

  Tim, could you also coordinate with the TCI missing person group to add scenarios based on their experience.

  We can move this to googledoc or where ever it it is more convenient for all.

2)  Defined a form to register participants, their systems and the standards they would like to test

  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dFZrTzd3dFFyaG41eHUxX0NTcEw2anc6MQ#gid=0

3) Registered a google group for interop workshop participants (please join if you are participating or are interested in the interop workshops)

  Join at http://groups.google.com/group/crisis-interop (we will be moving discussion over to this group as soon as people register)

Dominic, Glenn, if you are still interested we could also do scenarios on hospital data exchange using EDXL-HAVE or otherwise, but possibly it is wise to stick to one scenario group for the first workshop until we get the mechanisms of the interop event right. I have added a placeholder in the main page if you wish to do so http://www.humanitarian-ict.org/wiki/interop_workshop_guidelines#standards_to_be_tested

To be frank I really could do with some help to coordinate and driving the workshop as I am finding it very hard to find spare time this month due to my current work pressures. Appreciate if I can have a few volunteers who are attending ISCRAM to help run the session. Please let me know if you are able to help out in this way.


Thanks,

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

[Chamindra de Silva]

OK the only change I think we will be making for now is to move the WIKI page to a google doc to make it easier to handle the tables that are contained within the interop test report. I will do this within a few days with the help of Greg who has defined a few scenarios for Sahana missing persons. We will start elaborating in the next 2 weeks on the interop scenarios with hopefully the help of the TCI_missing person group.

For now I would like to request that those that like to participate with their systems for the interop test mark your attendance on the online workshop registration

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFZrTzd3dFFyaG41eHUxX0NTcEw2anc6MQ#gid=0

Based on how many people are interested in testing missing persons, or Hospital data exchange, etc we can then decided weather to run those scenarios at ISCRAM. If there is only one group, we would still encourage a demonstration of how the system is compliant to a specific standard. Dominic would be happy to have you still talk to EDXL-HAVE even if other systems to test with are not present.

Also there has been an interested in those who would like to participate virtually and if there is enough interest we can look to virtualize the session as much as possible. I have added that query to the form.

Tim will be helping me to schedule a online discussion to finalize our plans sometime next week and I will forward the invite. Appreciate if you can fill the form by then and also join the crisis-interop mailing list if you are interested in participating in this or future interop sessions and tests.

Please do forward to others you think might be interested, but for now I am going to set a deadline for 18th for the form, by which we can make a final decisions on what we will test based on the input on the form.

Thanks,

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