Tools for a metaglossary of the Civil Protection in Italy

Abstract

The paper presents a project aimed to create a glossary of Civil Protection terms, released in the formats of the semantic web. The character of interdisciplinarity, geographic and cultural heterogeneity of the domain induces problems related to the languages both to specialists and citizens. The implementation of tools that facilitate disambiguation of terminology will therefore guarantee and optimize not only the effectiveness of emergency planning and management but also the dissemination of Civil Protection knowledge and of the related documentary resources. We propose a metaglossary organized as a linguistic database that intercepts and organizes terminological tools available on the web, without losing their specificity, knowledge heritage and semantic depth. The metaglossary allows the management of relationships among the entities identified as more functional.
So structured and currently rich in about 3000 entries, it will allow interoperability with other KOS (Knowledge Organization Systems), in particular with thesauri, also in a multilingual perspective.