piper-project.org is the home of the PIPER framework and the PIPER Child model (among others). It is an Open Source project started at the end of the [[http://www.piper-project.eu/|EC Funded Piper Project]]. It aims to federate the efforts around these tools and model.

===== Vision =====
The project aims to promote the use of human body models to improve transportation safety:
  * By developing and making widely available tools facilitating their use and their reproducibility
  * By increasing their ease of use, making available missing tools/models (e.g. child)
  * By encouraging contributions for the emergence of common practices, maintenance solutions and evolutions through an academic and industrial user communities
  * By helping to harmonize practices though openness

Its core values are:
  * Open Science and Open Source, as a mean to secure access (without time limitation) to tools needed to improve safety and to share the required efforts (no need to develop your own)
  * Trying to be inclusive and account for existing models, codes and practices (model, code/vendor agnostic solution)

===== Roadmap =====
In the short term, the project will work on the continuation of the efforts initiated in the [[http://www.piper-project.eu/|EC Funded Piper Project]]. Specific developments should include among others:
  * for the tools: additional documentation and tutorials (in particular to help building metadata for models which are not currently supported), additional workflows and evaluation of the performance, the inclusion of more a priori knowledge to drive the human body model scaling or positioning, ...
  * for the child models: a continuation of the validation effort and the inclusion of metrics such as CORA, and the preparation of work on the injury prediction capability.


===== Contributions =====
As an Open Source project, all contributions are welcomed. Please contact us if you are interested in contributing to the tools or model.