Re: [ontolog-forum] Legacy systems

[Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sean,

I replied at length to Paola DiMaio's reply to this message. I tend to work from the bottom up my email list in the morning.

Cheers,

Rex

At 10:47 AM +0000 11/19/07, Barker, Sean (UK) wrote:

> Rex,
>  
>     I tried to get a similar approach going in
> the EU project OASIS (no relation) for a tactical situation object for
> emergency response, but although we agreed on using a
> sort-of-taxonomy, an ontology was a step to far.
>  
>     I say sort-of-taxonomy. It was
> clear that with some twenty different sorts of emergency responder to
> inform, and with different breakdowns of responsibility between
> the member countries (there are some 20+ to consider), that no
> classification single system would be used consistently and even basic
> categories vary between service, location and country. Consequently,
> in several areas, particularly that for identifying the type of
> incident, we used an "anti-taxonomy", which identified
> multiple classes of classification factors and provided a
> classification system for each factor, but which did not identify an
> overall class. Consequently, there is no classification
> "major-warehouse-fire", but separate classifications for
> scale, site, and incident type
> (fire/flood/earthquake...).
>  
>     One of the problems is that each responder
> has their own "legacy" classification system, which cannot
> be easily replaced, since it is built into the procedures and culture
> of the responding organization. Rather like the Edison problem, the
> best we can do is pipe emergency situation messages to each responder,
> and let them convert it into something that they can consume. The
> critical problem is to ensure that the conversion process does not
> lose too much of the original - in the case of emergency situation
> messages, misunderstand does not create a significant risk to the
> lives or health of the responders.
>  
> Sean
> Barker
> Bristol, UK
>
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