Ontology for context-aware mobile decision support systems for emergency management in mass gatherings: data

A team of collaborators from Monash University (Prof Frada Burstein, A/Prof Shonali Krishnaswamy, Dr Pari Delir Haghighi, Dr Fonny Sujanto, A/Prof Leonid Churilov), Flinders University and St John Ambulance Australia (Prof Paul Arbon), CSIRO (Prof Arkady Zaslavsky), and industry partner IBM has produced a domain ontology for emergency management for mass gatherings. Mass gatherings are defined as events such as public concerts and sports events with more than 2,000 participants, for which emergency procedures are planned by organisations such as St Johns Ambulance. The ontology ensures consistency of expectations across different stakeholders (e.g. emergency agencies, government, and communities) has also been built into a prototype mobile decision support systems for emergency services staff. More prototypes are planned. The ontology is a work-in-progress that was originally produced for emergency management but has been extensively augmented for mass gatherings and for medical purposes. A key part of the collaborative development of the ontology was a focus group with 12 industry experts, who were walked through the ontology term by term to validate the relationships and connections expressed in the ontology. The ontology will continue to evolve, and is customisable for use in different contexts, as demonstrated by a related research project with the Victorian State Government involving health disaster planning. The ontology has been developed and worked with using freely available tools such as The Brain (http://www.thebrain.com/) and Protégé ontology editor and knowledge-base (http://protege.stanford.edu/).

由莫纳什大学（Frada Burstein教授、Shonali Krishnaswamy副教授、Pari Delir Haghighi博士、Fonny Sujanto博士、Leonid Churilov副教授）、弗林德斯大学、澳大利亚圣约翰急救队（Paul Arbon教授）、澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）以及行业合作伙伴IBM组成的协作团队，共同打造了面向大型集会应急管理的领域本体（domain ontology）。大型集会被定义为参与人数超过2000人的公共音乐会、体育赛事等活动，此类活动的应急处置流程通常由圣约翰急救等机构负责规划。该本体不仅能够确保应急机构、政府与社区等不同利益相关方的预期保持一致，还被集成至面向应急服务人员的移动决策支持系统原型中，后续还计划开发更多同类原型。该本体仍处于持续迭代开发阶段，最初专为应急管理场景打造，后续已针对大型集会与医疗场景进行了大规模的扩充与优化。本体协作开发的关键环节之一，是邀请12位行业专家组成焦点小组，逐一审阅并梳理本体术语，以验证本体中所表达的各类关系与关联的合理性。该本体将持续演进升级，且可针对不同应用场景进行定制化调整，维多利亚州政府参与的健康灾害规划相关研究项目便验证了这一特性。本本体依托The Brain（http://www.thebrain.com/）与Protégé本体编辑器及知识库（Protégé ontology editor and knowledge-base）等免费工具进行开发与维护。