National
Incident Interoperability Architecture The basic architecture to support national incident data sharing.
Creating an Emergency Data Exchange
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Data Standards
The Emergency Interoperability Consortium is deeply
committed to the creation and promulgation of open Webservices standards
for emergency response and management. The EIC is proud to work closely
with its partners - the Disaster Management Program at the Department
of Homeland Security and the Emergency Management Technical Committee
of OASIS through a process that insures that emergent standards are: practitioner driven, commercially sustainable and technically valid,
open and free.
Process for Creating Standards:
- The Department of Homeland Security
has assembled practitioner working groups to provide primary input
on the requirements for new open standards.
- Once the requirements for a new standard have
been provided by the practitioners and working in conjunction with
the Department of Homeland Security, they are formally passed on to
the EIC for review.
- The EIC the presents requirements for
the proposed standard to the membership for discussion. The
EIC Board then takes all of the member input and reviews the proposed
submission and votes whether or not to send it on to the Emergency
Management Technical Committee (EM-TC) of OASIS.
- The EM-TC of OASIS reviews the requirements
submission for consistency with its Charter, and if deemed acceptable,
develops it into a valid XML standard.
- Once the proposed standard has met all of OASIS’s
rigorous standard development criteria, it is voted on by the OASIS
membership. If accepted, OASIS then publishes the standard. The EIC,
DHS and OASIS all work together to promote the use of open emergency
management standards.
Standards (Either Released, In Development or at the Requirements Stage):
Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP 1.0) – Ratified April 2004
CAP
1.1 - Ratified
EDXL Distribution Element – In public comment
until 10/28/05 at OASIS EM-TC
Resource Messages – In development at
OASIS
HAVE – Being considered by OASIS EM-TC
Helpful Links:
COMCARE’s
data standards page
OASIS
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