CAP

[Frederic V. Hessman]

On 13 Sep 2007, at 10:33 pm, Tony Linde wrote:

> There’s an ongoing discussion of some length on the hitherto  
> dormant semantics list about whether any standard vocabulary ought  
> to conform to / extend existing vocabulary standards like SKOS.
>
>
>
> I’ve just discovered that there is an OASIS alerting standard  
> called CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) and wondered how it might  
> relate to VOEvent?
>
>   (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15135/ 
> emergency-CAPv1.1-Corrected_DOM.pdf)
At last - a way of making the Dept. of Homeland Security actually  
useful:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<alert xmlns = "urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1">
<identifier>43b080713727</identifier>
<sender>hsas at dhs.gov</sender>
<sent>2003-04-02T14:39:01-05:00</sent>
<status>Actual</status>
<msgType>Alert</msgType>
<scope>Public</scope>
<info>
<category>Security</category>
<event>Homeland Security Advisory System Update</event>
<urgency>Immediate</urgency>
<severity>Severe</severity>
<certainty>Likely</certainty>
<senderName>U.S. Government, Department of Homeland Security</ 
senderName>
<headline>Homeland Security Sets Code RED</headline>
<description>The Department of Homeland Security announces that  
American intelligence sources have determined that Supernova 2007AH  
(Alpha Centauri) was triggered by a high-tech Al Qaeda terrorist  
group.  The President assures that everything within his power is  
being done to protect the American public from the expected damage to  
the Earth's atmosphere and has asked everyone to watch FOX News for  
further in-depth information.</description>
<instruction>The Board of Directors of Haliburton Inc. are asked to  
make their way to Cheyenne Mountain.</instruction>
<web>http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29</web>
<parameter>
<valueName>HSAS</valueName>
<value>RED</value>
</parameter>
<resource>
<resourceDesc>Image file (GIF)</resourceDesc>
<uri>http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/getAdvisoryImage</uri>
</resource>
<area>
<areaDesc>U.S. nationwide and interests worldwide</areaDesc>
</area>
</info>
</alert>

I'd say that we did a better job - VOEvent can't adopt CAP in it's  
present form but the DoHS could have adopted VOEvent.

Rick

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