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Harmonization Of Vocabularies For Water Data, Simon J.D. Cox, Jonathan Yu, Bruce A. Simons Aug 2014

Harmonization Of Vocabularies For Water Data, Simon J.D. Cox, Jonathan Yu, Bruce A. Simons

International Conference on Hydroinformatics

Observational data encodes values of properties associated with a feature of interest, estimated by a specified procedure. For water the properties are physical parameters like level, volume, flow and pressure, and concentrations and counts of chemicals, substances and organisms. Water property vocabularies have been assembled at project, agency and jurisdictional level. Organizations such as EPA, USGS, CEH, GA and BoM maintain vocabularies for internal use, and may make them available externally as text files. BODC and MMI have harvested many water vocabularies alongside others of interest in their domain, formalized the content using SKOS, and published them through web interfaces. …


Environmental Data Store: Design And Implementation, Peng Ji, Michael Piasecki Aug 2014

Environmental Data Store: Design And Implementation, Peng Ji, Michael Piasecki

International Conference on Hydroinformatics

In this paper we present the design and implementation of Environmental data store (EDS). We also highlight the Environmental Thesaurus Server (EnvThs), a standalone web application developed by us, providing semantic support on submission and search within EDS. With the rapid growth in data volumes, data diversity and data demands from multi-disciplinary research effort, data management and exploitation are increasingly facing significant challenges for environmental scientific community. We describe Environmental data store (EDS), a system we are developing that is a web-based system following an open source implementation to manage and exploit multi-data-type environmental data. EDS provides repository services for …