Approved Meeting Notes from the EM-TC Telecon
Date: Sept 13, 2011
Next meeting: Sept 27, 2011 Telecon
A quorum was in attendance.
1. Attendance
Aymond, Patti Leinenweber, Lewis
Bowen, William McGarry, Donald
Brooks, Rex O'Donnell, Darrell
Duncans, Charlene Osterloh, Camille
Gooch, Martena Timm, Gary
Grapes, Tim Torchon, Robert
Gustafson, Robert Vandame, Richard
Ham, Gary Waters, Jeff
Joerg, Werner Wilkins, Brian
Jones, Elysa
2. The meeting notes for the Aug 30 meeting were reviewed and corrected. Gary made and
Rex seconded a motion to accept the notes as amended. All agreed.
3. Notes from the chair.
a. Rex will be presenting the outcome of the Documents and Collateral
Subcommittee of the Adoption Technical Committee during the meeting. He
asked that everyone pull up the recommendation to the TC for the new CAP logo.
b. While the members brought the logo up for review, Elysa announced that the
Emergency Interoperability Member Section voted last week to donate $1000 to
support the Crises Camp tour. We have discussed how this effort that supports
the use of open standards for emergency management and particularly the EDXL
suite of Standards. The specifics for the tour and dates are posted. We were
happy to be able to support their efforts.
c. Rex presented the Documents & Collateral presentation of CAP logo
recommendation.
i. Gary Timm asked if it indicated that it was tied to RSS and ATOM. Elysa
offered that the thought was the exclamation point as read left to right
depict emergency information, the consecutive circles to signify getting
the message out. Rex added that there was extensive discussion on this
point and it was felt that one of the major uses of the symbol would be for
RSS feeds to identify them. He thinks the idea of an “!” to get across the
idea that it is an an alert then the two arcs to imply broadcast is a good
connotation to carry. We also needed for it to be legible at 25%.
ii. Werner asked that the separation from top to bottom and side to side be
the same, Rex agreed. The discussion about color was to insure it was an
absolute red where this one had a bit of orange in it. Rex will verify the
proper color and indicated that it will vary from one monitor to another.
iii. Gary asked about the use of the logo saying that a square rather than a
rectangle was preferred for putting on a map. There was additional
discussion on this point with Gary Ham, Don, Rich and others indicating
that a square is preferred. We agreed that we could have two logos, one
with and one without the letters “CAP”
iv. Don moved and Rex seconded a motion to have two logos, one being an
icon used for maps with the first of the two recommendations Rex
presented. It would be square and have the exclamation point and
concentric circles. There would also be one with the whole rectangular
piece, extended just a bit so to have even spacing on either side. With no
further discussion, the vote was taken and all agreed to approve the logo,
none opposed.
v. Werner commented that we want in no way to imply any level of
compliance or certification with the use of this logo. All agreed.
vi. Rex and Werner will work together to finalize the color and details to
insure proper documentation. Once it has been finalized, Elysa agreed to
send to the people from the CAP workshop 2011 where the request was
made to develop this. Rex agreed to put it on the CrisisCommons trail,
Darrel said he would announce it at the upcoming Canadian MASAS
initiative meeting. Everyone was encouraged to publish it wherever they
could.
4. Subcommittee Reports.
a. SitRep 1.0. Tim reported that they are getting closer to announcing a completed
draft for TC review. Don and his staff have posted more material and Lew is
working on the links and references for the GML Simple Features. They agreed it
should be ready for the next EM-TC meeting. Elysa encouraged everyone to keep
an eye out for these final postings and review them to be prepared for discussion
at our Sept 27 meeting.
b. DE 2.0. Jeff reported that a zip file of the most recent schema has been uploaded.
He thanked Lew and Don for their work on Common Types that allowed him to
just pull these pieces from the RIM and integrate into the DE 2.0 draft without
much trouble. With this done, they will be doing the final updates to the draft
specification. It could possibly be ready to finalize by the next meeting.
c. HAVE 2.0. Don reported that now that his work with SitRep is complete, he will
resume his focus on HAVE. He will arrange with Lee Tincher to resume
meetings in October. Tim commented and others agree that there is a lot of work
coming up to include TEP, Australian CAP Profile, etc.
d. TEP. Tim reported that they had a meeting last Thursday to bring folks up to
speed on the artifacts and deliverables. The New Zealand participants are back
involved. The group is about half way through the original requirements. Tim
would still like to get more people engaged. There are about two more
documents to get through before they begin development of the requirements and
draft document. After going through a 60 item list of open issues and submitting
them to the process, they will determine what is next, confirm the process, tools,
etc. they will dive into developing the specification. Elysa asked if an HL7
liaison had been defined. Tim said Mike Glickman is contacting John Quinn.
They are still interested in the talking about the routing of payloads per the TEP
point of contact. No one has been specifically named for the HL7 liaison but Tim
will continue to reach out.
e. RIM. Rex reported they are breaking ground on the ontology for EDXL data
model. They did some preliminary work on CAP v1.2 and are ready to start on
the ontology more seriously and develop a complete data model. He asked if other
had comments to share about the RIM and ontology.
i. Werner had nothing more to add about ontology but reminded the group
that there was work yet to be done Common Types
ii. Jeff said it is an ideal goal for RIM is to have place where all components
of standards in one reference model. One way is with ontology. They are
exploring in the RIM SC how best to utilize that tool. They are beginning
to address that and will make some decisions at next meeting. They will
come up with an early draft for review and go from there. Rex added that
Jeff has put together toolkits to look at how using an ontology would
benefit the work, for instance use of EDXL-DE and selection for how to
distribute a simple message.
iii. Elysa asked Werner what the next steps are for Common Types. He said
that at the last meeting, we voted last time to advance EDXL GML Simple
Features Profile Version 1.0 WD09 as a Committee Specification Draft
1.0. Lew explained that during last meeting discussion there was one part
of the schema for simple features, the schema location, was not correct
and would not allow schema to validate. A fix was made to that URL.
That was the only change and specifically for XLINK. The change was
made to the schema and repackaged as Working Draft 10 along with the
specification. Numbering for both was updated to 10 so numbering would
match. That was the only change and it makes it clear and usable. It is
now posted in RIM Common Types folder.
iv. After some discussion about process, Rex moved and Lew seconded a
motion to approve made a motion to approve WD 10 EDXL GML Simple
Features Profile Version 1.0 WD09 as a Committee Specification Draft
(CSD01) (located at ) All agreed.
5. Other business.
a. Elysa reported that in her role as chair of the IAEM standards and practices
committee, she offered to introduce the EDXL Sit Rep Standard at that committee
meeting during the IAEM Annual Meeting. The committee will meet for 2 hours
on Sunday, November 13th. This will be a good time to get some visibility of the
new work during he time it should be out for review. We would like to have as
much visibility as possible. There will be an OASIS booth at the conference and
will highlight companies that are at the show using OASIS Standards.
With our agenda accomplished Tim made and Rex seconded the motion to adjourn. All agreed,
none opposed.
Respectfully submitted,
Elysa Jones, Chair
OASIS EM-TC