Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Volume
52
Issue
4
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date
10-30-2015
First Page
873
Last Page
889
Abstract
The types of data and models used within the hydrologic science community are diverse. New repositories have succeeded in making data and models more accessible, but are, in most cases, limited to particular types or classes of data or models and also lack the type of collaborative and iterative functionality needed to enable shared data collection and modeling workflows. File sharing systems currently used within many scientific communities for private sharing of preliminary and intermediate data and modeling products do not support collaborative data capture, description, visualization, and annotation. In this article, we cast hydrologic datasets and models as “social objects” that can be published, collaborated around, annotated, discovered, and accessed. This article describes the generic data model and content packaging scheme for diverse hydrologic datasets and models used by a new hydrologic collaborative environment called HydroShare to enable storage, management, sharing, publication, and annotation of the diverse types of data and models used by hydrologic scientists. The flexibility of HydroShare's data model and packaging scheme is demonstrated using multiple hydrologic data and model use cases that highlight its features.
Recommended Citation
Horsburgh, Jeffery S., Morsy, Mohamed M., Castronova, Anthony M., Goodall, Jonathan L., Gan, Tian, Yi, Hong, Stealey, Michael J., and Tarboton, David G., 2016. HydroShare: Sharing Diverse Environmental Data Types and Models as Social Objects with Application to the Hydrology Domain. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 52 (4): 873–889. DOI: 10.1111/1752‐1688.12363
Comments
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Horsburgh, J. S., M. M. Morsy, A. M. Castronova, J. L. Goodall, T. Gan, H. Yi, M. J. Stealey and D. G. Tarboton, (2016), "HydroShare: Sharing Diverse Environmental Data Types and Models as Social Objects with Application to the Hydrology Domain," JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52(4): 873-889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12363., which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12363. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.