CAIRNS - Initial Open Source Release

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)
Level 5, Axon Building #47, Staff House Rd, St Lucia, QLD, 4072,  
AUSTRALIA
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[1] <http://nicta.com.au/safe>
[2] <http://cairns.sourceforge.net/>
[3] <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cairns/>