An ontology for cross-sectoral crisis management: core and public health modules

Abstract:This paper presents the European Crisis Management Ontology (ECMO), a modular OWL-based ontology intended as a cross-sectoral reference for disaster risk reduction and response. ECMO is designed to be organised as a network of ontological modules. Among the modules, ECMO-CORE captures fundamental crisis management concepts such as hazard, event, exposure, impact, and response measure and uses ontology design patterns and the OWL2 punning technique to resolve ambiguities between hazard types and event manifestations. In addition, domain-specific modules are defined as in the case of the public health module aligned with SNOMED CT and ICD-11. To demonstrate the resource's utility, we used ECMO to represent the data of the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources system of the Joint Research Centre to generate an end-to-end pipeline that populates an ECMO-compliant knowledge graph from unstructured epidemiological news. Initial results demonstrate that ECMO provides the formal guardrails necessary for consistent and unified knowledge representation and integration. The ontology is publicly available at this https URL and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)

arXiv:2610.01326 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2610.01326v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.01326 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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