Scalable Architectures LLC in combination with other members of the Integrated Response Services Consortium (IRSC) provided an overview of technologies and emerging standards and how they apply to emergency management. The IRSC is focused on the practical application of software technologies to facilitate the efficiency of emergency responders.

The following link provides an overview, slides, videos, and reference material for this workshop.

ExpeditionWorkshop/ExploringVirtualOrganizationLandscape CyberinfrastructureReadinessForEmergencyResponse 2008 10 07

Scalable Architectures contributed work involving SOA registries and full/partial web service implementations for the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard, Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element (DE) standard, EDXL Resource Messaging (RM) specification, and EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) specification.

Other members provided presentations and implementations for a Common Operating Picture (Golden Gate Safety Network), Simulations and an Exercise Control System (NIST), Building Information Model (BIM) resources, and a web based form entry open source application for EDXL-RM developed by Rex Brooks of Starbourne Communications.

Each organization that presented is in the beginning stages of developing pieces of a SOA that could eventually all play together using a SOA computing infrastructure. Emergency management is a good example of where emerging standardization efforts and SOA technology are poised to improve the measurability and efficiency of emergency response to large scale disaster situations, not only in the US but around the globe.

Standardization efforts that played a large part in the technology implementations include the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol, OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element (DE), OASIS EDXL Resource Messaging (RM), OASIS EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE), OASIS Reference Model and Reference Architecture for SOA, and the National Building Information Model (BIM) standard. Links for all of these standards and more can be found at the workshop link provided above.