Terminology in Crisis and Disaster Management

CEN Workshop Agreement

Georg Neubauer, AIT http://www.ait.ac.at Background

. The FP7 project EPISECC develops a concept of a common information space including taxonomy building to improve interoperability between European crisis managers and stakeholders

. EPISECC is mandated to provide the outcome of its research to international standardisation – involvement in CEN TC391

. Within the FP7 project DRIVER a standard on terminology in crisis management shall be developed (among multiple other goals)

. DRIVER & EPISECC will jointly co-operate on this issue

. Additional support is planned from the FP7 projects REDIRNET, SECINCORE and SECTOR (all dealing with interoperability)

2 Scope and Purpose

. Provision of an overview of existing terminologies and definitions applied in multiple domains of crisis and disaster management

. Overview on synonyms with the same or similar definitions

. Overview on different definitions for the same term

. Benefit: Support enhancement of mutual understanding of users/organizations applying different standards/taxonomies

. Benefit: Potential long term perspective: enhanced use of most suitable terms and definitions arising from multiple sources

3 Scope and Purpose (Example)

Domain Term Definition Standard/document Intended Users situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organization (2.2.9), community or society to respond and recover using its own resources

Societal security disaster ISO 22300 (2012) not specified

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own authorities, pratictioners not specified disaster resources. UNISDR Terminology (2009) and the public

Disaster Category Classification and peril Terminology for Operational Purposes - Working paper 264 user of EM-DAT and Natural disasters disaster no definition given (2009) other databases

Disaster Category Events caused by long-lived/meso to Classification and peril macro scale processes (in the spectrum from Terminology for Operational intraseasonal to multidecadal climate Purposes - Working paper 264 user of EM-DAT and Natural disasters climatological disaster variability) (2009) other databases

4 Idea

Developing a new common terminology in Crisis and Disaster Management

Versus

Organizing existing terminologies into a database and establishing semantic mappings between their concepts Database of terminologies

Database based on the standard: • ISO 25964 - standard for thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies • SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)

Sources of existing terminologies: . ISO 22300 (2012) ISO 22300 DRIVER entering . UNISDR Terminology (2009) EPISECC terms by REDIRNET . ... WebProte SECTOR ge SECINCORE . project proposals: EPISECC, ? terminology UNISDR DRIVER, REDIRNET, SECINCORE and SECTOR . Another option: national project INKA Database of terminologies

Establishing semantic mappings between the terminologies’ terms/concepts

To use thesaurus features to enhance operability of the database

Term A from ISO 22300 ISO 22300 is synonym of DRIVER entering Term B from UNISDR Terminology EPISECC mappings REDIRNET by SECTOR WebProte Term C from ISO 22300 SECINCORE ge is broader term of X terminology UNISDR Term D from UNISDR Terminology Justification . Cross-border and cross-organisation information exchange between stakeholders is one of the major challenges of European as well as international crisis management

. First investigations demonstrated that European CM organisations use a large variety of standards and procedures leading to a considerable variability of applied terms and associated definitions

. In addition, language barriers play a crucial role

. It is unlikely that any organisation or any member country is ready to adapt their SOPs, standards, procedures for a common standard

. Availability of an (extendable) overview on terms and definitions might be a crucial step to improve interoperability

8 Relation to EU Mandate/Directive

. Mandate M/487 to Establish Security Standards (2011)

. COM (2012) 417 final – Security Industrial Policy – Action Plan for an innovative and competitive security industry

. ….

9 List of Related Documents*)

Standard Nr Document Name Organization Name and/or Short Description ISO 22300:2012 contains terms and definitions applicable to societal security to establish a common ISO 22300 : 2012 Societal security -- Terminology ISO understanding so that consistent terms are used Societal security -- Emergency management -- Societal security - Emergency management - Requirements for ISO 22320 :2011 Requirements for incident response ISO incident response ISO/PAS 22399:2007 provides general guidance for an ISO/PAS 22399 : Societal security - Guideline for incident preparedness and organization — private, governmental, and 2007 operational continuity management ISO nongovernmental organizations ISO 22315:2014 provides guidelines for mass evacuation planning Societal security -- Mass evacuation -- Guidelines for in terms of establishing, implementing, ISO 22315:2014 planning ISO monitoring, evaluating, reviewing, and improving preparedness. Societal security -- Organizational resilience -- Principles Societal security -- Organizational resilience -- Principles and ISO/CD 22316 and guidelines ISO guidelines ISO 22322:2015 provides guidelines for developing, managing, and Societal security -- Emergency management -- Guidelines implementing public warning before, ISO 22322:2015 for public warning ISO during, and after incidents. ISO Guide 73:2009 provides the definitions of generic terms related to risk management. It aims to encourage a mutual and consistent understanding of, and a coherent approach to, the description of activities relating to the management of risk, and the use of uniform risk management ISO guide 73 : terminology in processes and frameworks dealing with the 2009 Risk management -- Vocabulary ISO management of risk. ISO 31000:2009 provides principles and generic guidelines on risk ISO 31000 : 2009 Risk management -- Principles and guidelines ISO management. International Telegraph X.cee.2 CEE dictionary and event taxonomy (CDET) Union CEE dictionary and event taxonomy (CDET) *) the listed documents do not intend to be complete and are of illustrative character

11 Joint/Parallel Work (1)

. EN ISO 22300 Societal Security - Terminology (2014-07) à under revision: The revision process will identify the terms used in more than one standard and confirm that their definitions are consistent (http://www.isotc292online.org/projects/ISO-22300-/)

. DIN SPEC 91330 - Terminology relating to events in pipeline- and cable-based infrastructures (2015-08)

. ANSI/ASTM E 176 - Terminology of Fire Standards (2015-00)

. ISO Guide 73:2009 - Risk management – Vocabulary (2009-11) à under revision (http://www.iso.org/iso/news.htm?refid=Ref1963)

12 Joint/Parallel Work (2)

. DS 3001 Organizational resilience: Security, preparedness, and continuity management systems - Requirements with guidance for use (2009-10) An extensive Glossary of terms appears in Annex D

. BS 11200 - Crisis management. Guidance and good practice (2014- 05)

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