Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Code-fest

Place: ​Orion IT City Park
Date: Thursday 19 June 2014

Objectives

1. Develop a Sahana (OData-like) S3XML data structure to CRUD pictographs used in alerting. The teams will determine the optimal set of CAP elements to build in to the HTTP RESTful Request APIs. Thereafter, the CAP Editor, Mobile CAP Tool, and ITU CAP Software will use the APIs to publish a message with the pictograph
2. Establish a set of parameters for exchanging measurement data; first document the norms in the Sahana wiki; then enhance each of the CAP-enabled tools to use the parameter values to change the visualization (e.g. flash flood water height to display the inundation region on a map).
3. Emulate a Google Alerthub test base for experimenting with RSS/Atom feeds for a Common Operating Picture; using the Sahana-Eden’s Crisis Map with spatial and temporal filtering capabilities.

Software Tools

Software tool name	coding platform	team contact	documentation
​SAMBRO	Python/Web2Py/PostgreSQL	Nuwan Waidyanatha, Francis Boon , Dominic Konig	CAP Broker Blueprint
​CAP Editor	Java	Eliot Christian	​documentation included
Google AlertHub	Java	talk to Steve Hakusa (and/or Nigel) ???	​A simple, open, mechansim based on the Pubsubhubbub protocol & open source reference implementation
Mobile publisher	HTML5/JS	Art Botterell	​CAPTools on GitHub
Other	other skills	other team contact	other documentation

Intended coding exercises

1. Develop a Sahana (OData-like) S3XML data structure to CRUD pictographs used in alerting. The teams will determine the optimal set of CAP elements to build in to the HTTP RESTful Request APIs. Thereafter, the CAP Editor, Mobile CAP Tool, and ITU CAP Software will use the APIs to publish a message with the pictograph
2. Establish a set of parameters for exchanging measurement data; first document the norms in the Sahana wiki; then enhance each of the CAP-enabled tools to use the parameter values to change the visualization (e.g. flash flood water height to display the inundation region on a map).
3. Emulate a Google Alerthub test base for experimenting with RSS/Atom feeds for a Common Operating Picture; using the Sahana-Eden’s Crisis Map with spatial and temporal filtering capabilities.

Facilitators

1. ​Eliot Christian, CAP Program Committee Chair
2. Elysa Jones, ​OASIS EM-TC Chair
3. ​Nuwan Waidyanatha, Sahana Software Foundation Standards & Interoperability Chair and LIRNEasia Senior Research Fellow