VITA Person Entity Model ¶

Version 2.0

under construction

Overview ¶

VITA is an application model for storage, manipulation and communication of person-related information in emergency management software. It defines a set of data structures, interfaces and interoperability features to be implemented by EM software applications.

Components ¶

VITA defines:

• an extensible data model for tagging, tracking and tracing of person entities (PT³)
• a set of interfaces to request and manipulate person entity data
• an XML-based data format to communicate person entity data (for ​EDXL-DE Payload)

The PT³ Data Model ¶

Person Entity ¶

Presence ¶

Identity ¶

Contact Information ¶

Address Information ¶

Role and Status ¶

Person ¶

Group ¶

Findings ¶

Functions ¶

Interfaces ¶

UUIDs ¶

XML Schema ¶

The VITA XML-Schema is intended to provide EDXL-DE payloads, and it is meant to supersede the ​Person Finder Interchange Format. For the time being, this schema shall be referred to as PT3F.

Implementations ¶

• SahanaPy Person Management (in progress)