CAIRNS

CAIRNS (Cooperative Alert Information and Resource Notification System) is a demonstrator of technologies that can be used to construct an interoperable CIMS (Crisis Information Management System) architecture. Specifically, CAIRNS implements the following XML-based emergency messaging standards: EDXL-DE, EDXL-RM and CAP.

CAIRNS was originally written at NICTA as one of the outcomes of the SAFE (Smart Applications for Emergencies) project at the NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory. CAIRNS is released as Open Source under the BSD license.

See tiems2007.pdf for an overview of some of the design goals and intended features of CAIRNS. While the description in the paper doesn't correspond to the implementation in all details, it is still a good starting point.

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INSTALL LICENSE 3RDPARTY GETTING_STARTED

References

Iannella, R., Henricksen, K., Rinta-Koski, O. Towards a Framework for Crisis Information Management Systems. 14th Annual Conference of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS). June 5th to 8th 2007, Trogir, Croatia

EDXL - Emergency Data Exchange Language

http://xml.coverpages.org/edxl.html http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/

EDXL-DE - Distribution Element

http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/edxl-de/v1.0/

EDXL-RM - Resource Messaging

http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/edxl-rm/v1.0/

CAP - Common Alerting Protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Alerting_Protocol http://www.incident.com/cookbook/

NICTA

http://www.nicta.com.au/ http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/smart_applications_for_emergencies

License

See LICENSE for further information.


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