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  • These resources pertain to creating a source of CAP alerts. Options here include writing alerts using a text authoring tool, modifying an existing alerting tool, hosting open source tools, or using an alert hosting service. Your situation and needs will dictate which resources to use.

    • Implementing a Source of CAP Alerts Video Presentation 网页

      This 36 minute presentation walks through the details of creating a CAP alert: authoring an alert file; hosting alert files; validation; security and authentication considerations; content considerations based on target media.

    • Implementing a Source of CAP Alerts PowerPoint 文件 PPT

      PowerPoint presentation used in Eliot's Christian's video presentation on implementing a source of CAP alerts.

      1.5 MB
    • Task Analysis for Composing an Alert Message 文件 PDF

      This Task Analysis focuses on the tasks involved when an authorized person composes an alert message, tasks situated between the decision to alert and the dissemination of that alert. It addresses only alert composition tasks supported by online tools and only for the issuing of alerts online in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format. The analysis is intended to inform development of well-designed tools for alert composition and so to help alert composers apply their expertise efficiently and effectively.


      186.8 KB

    • Software and Hosting Services

    • CAP AlertEditor 网页

      Eliot Christian's alert editing software. This is a Java-based tool for authoring and publishing CAP alerts to a CAP alert news feed. 

    • CAP AlertEditor Operations Guide 文件 PDF
      137.4 KB
    • CAP AlertEditor Software 文件 ZIP
      5.8 MB
    • Tomcat Server Software 文件 ZIP
      9.7 MB
    • Java JDK Download Site 网页地址
    • CAPTools Open Source Initiative 网页地址

      Github repository for CAPCreator, CAPCollector, CAPConsumer. This collection of tools is made available through an effort at Carnegie Mellon University.

    • Filtered Alert Hub Open Source Initiative 网页地址

      Github repository for Filtered Alert Hub software.

    • CAP Alert Editor: Hosted CAP Alerting 网页地址

      This site provides a cloud-based platform for publishing CAP alerts. It is available to any country in need of a platform for publishing CAP alerts. As of March 2019, it is maintained by Eliot Christian through NOAA's Big Data Project.

    • Apps and Misc Software Resources

    • IFRC Universal App Program 网页地址

      The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) offers a suite of tools and templates for developing locally relevant alert apps.