[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-a-new-framework-tries-to-standardize-crisis-response-data":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},9526,"a-new-framework-tries-to-standardize-crisis-response-data","A New Framework Tries to Standardize Crisis Response Data","A new open-source ontology called ECMO gives disaster responders and public health systems a shared vocabulary for linking crisis data across sectors.","A group of European researchers has published a formal data standard meant to make disaster response and public health reporting speak the same language.\n\nThe new ontology, called ECMO (European Crisis Management Ontology), is built in OWL and organized as a set of linked modules rather than one monolithic schema. Its core module, ECMO-CORE, defines basic crisis concepts like hazard, event, exposure, impact, and response measure, and uses a technique called OWL2 punning to keep hazard types from getting confused with specific event instances. A separate public health module ties those concepts to two widely used medical standards, SNOMED CT and ICD-11. To test the idea, the team fed unstructured epidemiological news through the Joint Research Centre's Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources system and used ECMO to automatically populate a structured knowledge graph.\n\nThat matters because crisis response usually breaks down at the data layer, not the policy layer: a flood agency, a hospital network, and a news-monitoring tool rarely describe the same event in compatible terms. A shared, machine-readable ontology is the kind of plumbing that lets those systems cross-reference data instead of re-entering it by hand.\n\nOntologies like this have a long history of being technically sound and practically ignored, so the real test for ECMO will be whether any agency outside the paper's own pilot actually adopts it.","[\"ontology\",\"crisis-management\",\"public-health\",\"knowledge-graph\"]","2026-10-02T04:00:00.000Z","2026-10-02T23:14:25.550Z","2026-10-02T23:14:32.473Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"ontology","crisis-management","public-health","knowledge-graph",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2610.01326",0,{"sections":36},[37,40,44,48,53,57,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96],{"name":38,"slug":24,"count":39,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",5886,{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":18},"Security","security",835,{"name":45,"slug":46,"count":47,"latest_published_at":18},"Policy","policy",438,{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Deals","deals",317,"2026-10-01T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":18},"Hardware","hardware",199,{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":18},"Science","science",171,{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",155,"2026-10-01T19:54:10.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",96,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Startups","startups",90,"2026-10-01T21:55:22.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Gaming","gaming",53,"2026-10-02T02:50:39.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]