CAIRNS - Initial Open Source Release

[Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>]

Dear colleagues,

CAIRNS (Cooperative Alert Information and Resource Notification System), one of the outcomes of work done within the SAFE project [1] at NICTA, has been released today as Open Source under the BSD licence.

CAIRNS 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 - Distribution Element

 - EDXL - Resource Messaging

 - Common Alert Protocol (CAP)

CAIRNS documentation [2] and source [3] are available now.

Cheers...  

Dr Renato Iannella

Principal Scientist, National ICT Australia (NICTA)

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[1] <http://nicta.com.au/safe>

[2] <http://cairns.sourceforge.net/>

[3] <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cairns/>