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UICDS is the "middleware foundation" that enables information sharing and decision support among commercial, government, and academic incident management technologies used to support the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS), including the Incident Command System (ICS), in order to prevent, protect, respond, and recover from natural, technological, and terrorist events. |
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In this issue ...
- All Hazards Consortium Workshop Features UICDS
- EDXL-RM Featured Presentation on Biweekly Call
- UICDS Collaboration: On-Demand Learning
- UICDS Biweekly Call Reminder - This Thursday
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All Hazards Consortium Interoperability Workshop Features UICDS
UICDS was one of the featured technologies at the Regional Public Safety Communications and Interoperability Workshop held in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The Workshop was held in conjunction with the FEMA Region III Regional Emergency Communications Coordination which has worked with AHC on prior workshops and meetings, white paper recommendations, and baseline assessments. The goal of this meeting is to move forward with actionable next steps.
The UICDS focus at the meeting was to report on current pilots taking place in the region and to highlight the relationship between UICDS and SAFECOM. While SAFECOM initially was a set of radio interoperability guidance to support grants, it has now added "data-related information sharing standards." These standards are a subset of the UICDS information sharing standards, representing the EDXL-based standards. UICDS incorporates the EDXL-based standards (with the hospital availability standards to be under consideration during the UICDS pilot period) along with several other important information exchange standards. The additional standards in UICDS have been widely adopted by the emergency management community and critical to exchanging the essential elements of incident management content. In the following list, the checked standards are those that help an application comply with SAFECOM data-related standards and the plus marked standards are those that UICDS has selected to enable the fullest sharing of vital incident management data.
UICDS Standards
ü National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
ü Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
ü EDXL-Distribution Element
ü EDXL-Resource Messaging
+ UCore Digest
+ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Context
+ OGC Web Mapping Service
+ OGC Web Feature Service
+ OGC Sensor Observation Service
+ KML, GeoRSS, and Atom+GML
+ Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council
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ü Satisfy SAFECOM standard
+ Additional UICDS-adopted Standards
The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) is a nonprofit charitable organization formed by an association of states in the Middle Atlantic region. The mission is to help create new resources and funding opportunities for the states to support regional multi-state collaboration efforts among our stakeholders from government, private sector, higher education and non-profit/volunteer organizations. The AHC is guided by the regional states of NC, DC, MD, VA, WV, DE, PA, NJ and NY. |
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Using EDXL-RM, the Emergency Data Exchange Language for Resource Messaging
Presenter: Basit Shafiq, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity (CIMIC), Rutgers University.
On the last UICDS Biweekly Call we were informed of the activities of Rutgers CIMIC in regard to their use of the EDXL-RM resource messaging standard. Basit Shafiq provided a detailed description of the group's use of EDXL-RM in New Jersey and offered some insight into the way that the RM standard can be implemented.
The call was recorded on the UICDS Collaboration Platform for your on-demand recall. You can access the audio recording and slide presentation by clicking here.
If you have not received your password to the UICDS Collaboration Platform, you can do so by answering a few questions at Get the UICDS Development Kit on the UICDS website. Armed with the password, you will get not only this last presentation by Basit but also have access to all the previous UICDS Biweekly Calls on many, many different topics.
And you can get a copy of the Rutgers CIMIC slide presentation by clicking here. |
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UICDS Collaboration: On-Demand Learning
Remember, all our presentations are open to you for collaboration on the UICDS website at www.UICDS.us (Login - Technology Providers to access the video collaboration platform).
Some reminders about collaborating on the UICDS video platform.
· To make the video larger, "Zoom Video"
· To make the presentation slides larger, click drag the presentation from the bottom right corner symbol.
· Simply click on "Add Discussion" to add your thoughts or questions at any point in the video.
· Your comments will be sent to several UICDS Team members so you will get the right technical or business answer
· If you want to respond to a comment, click on "Add Discussion" below the bottom right discussion window.
· Your comments may inspire other comments, and you will be notified when you can join in a discussion with others.
· To see all the comments made even if you have not added to the discussion, click on the "View RSS Options" orange button at the bottom right of the video window
· Use "Filter" to search through content in the discussion
If you don't have your username/password for the UICDS video collaboration platform, just click on "Get the UICDS Development Kit" on www.UICDS.us and answer a few brief questions. That will get you access to collaboration and the DevKit whenever you want it.
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UICDS Biweekly Technical and End-User "Open Mic" Calls
Every two weeks, the UICDS Team hosts the UICDS "Open Mic" call. This is your chance to meet with the UICDS technical team to get your questions answered ... and to share your thoughts and comments with everyone as well.
Join your colleagues on Thursday at noon ET on 800-366-7242 code 735108.
To check out the exact dates for the UICDS Biweekly Calls, you can always turn to the UICDS Calendar. Remember, whether you are a government agency or a technology provider, this is the place to get your questions answered about technical development, user implementations, and the UICDS Pilot Areas. So join the call and find out how UICDS can improve information sharing in your community, region, state, or critical infrastructure. |
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