The Security and Confidentiality Manager has responsibility for the confidentiality of data and all security related issues in relation to Law Enforcement agencies within the project.
There have been a series of press releases at the 'Kick off' and subsequent releases. It has been agreed that there should be an audit trail of future releases. However, it is recognised that academic and commercial partners will require the authorisation to release information for independent reasons without an extended review process. In order to facilitate this it is recommended that this will be dealt with as follows:
Releases will be pre-prepared after consultation with all Consortium members and held at WMP and SHU press offices for release to any interested parties on request. These releases will be reviewed at regular Consortium meetings to ensure currency and relevance. Consortium members will ensure that all information they propose to release is sent in time for the review at the meeting. Releases will also be included on the Odyssey website and SharePoint.
In addition, Consortium members who wish to release information during the review period (between Consortium meetings) will liaise with the Security and Confidentiality Manager.
This will form part of the Communication Strategy for the project; further discussion will take place regarding a central press office that will have responsibility for managing the releases and the identification of a spokesperson from the academic and Law Enforcement partners.
5.2 Evaluate the Results
In order to monitor the dissemination of the project each consortium member is provided with a Dissemination Strategy Plan as seen in Figure 8. On an ongoing basis these are grouped together on one document which will illustrate the full Dissemination Strategy for the Odyssey project. See Figure 9. All dissemination will also be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the project's Consortium meetings. There will also be an Odyssey exploitation plan drafted before the end of 2010.
Harmonisation and standardisation of exchange and use of ballistics and crime and terrorism information massively increases the value of the knowledge that can be extracted. Link and semantic analysis is used to generate this knowledge enhanced by the structure of the proposed Platform in this project. The stored and collected knowledge can flow freely across borders and jurisdictions significantly increasing its impact in tackling organised crime and terrorism.
International classification, standardisation and co-operation will provide a standardised and optimised approach and Platform. This will very significantly enhance performance, speed, cost and public safety. The economies of scale speed of communication and sharing data by interoperability allows this to take place.
The proposed format for hosting surface data will be based on the standardised .sdf format. This format developed under a previous framework project recognised by ISO as the default data format for surface topography data. The .sdf format has been designed to allow cross platform data exchange in the more general field of surface metrology of which ballistics measurements is a sub set. The format is now well accepted in the metrology field and most instrument manufactures offer .sdf format options in their software as a default.
A key objective of the Odyssey project is the development and implementation of standards. The Odyssey team’s compliance with relevant standards will be crucial to the architectural framework.
User requirements and research undertaken by Consortium members has highlighted that there are very little standards in place in relation to data storage and ballistics analysis.
Odyssey's objectives are to participate in the work of established standardisation bodies and to contribute to the transfer of the results achieved in the project into these standards bodies. The subsequent step is to disseminate the project results so as to foster community building and create an impact upon European Law Enforcement agencies, industry and research.
Odyssey has aimed to contribute firstly to pre-standards and the creation of new standards with the goal of transforming these developments into recommendations, guidelines or even the creation of new standards. Odyssey has also Secondly the adoption and use of existing standards or pre-standards and making them available to the market and providing feedback for those bodies with open activities in finishing or extending standards.
Odyssey standardisation specific activities include looking at standards for data acquisition data storage, correlations and data outputs/exports with the ultimate vision of creating a controlled dataset to assess inter-operability. This work is being addressed through experimental work being undertaken by Consortium members.
Currently the Consortium are working with ENFSI and following research centred around match declaration of ballistics information that is currently ongoing in the field including:
Odyssey Deliverables have been utilised and built on existing standards including:
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D5.1 Information Security Forum - The Standard of Good Practice for Information Security
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D2.2 ISO 17020 - General criteria for the Operation of Various types of bodies performing inspections and EA-5/03 - Guidelines for the implementation of ISO 17020 in the field of Crime Scene Investigation.
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D2.2 ACPO Murder Investigation Manual
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WP4 - Firetyde - developed by a European project to standardise the way characteristics of firearms are described.
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Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-Dex) - FBI Standard. Used to inform the ways Odyssey will use crime data.
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