HydroShare: An online, collaborative environment for the sharing of hydrologic data and models (Invited)

Authors

David G. Tarboton, Utah State UniversityFollow
R. Idaszak
Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Utah State UniversityFollow
Daniel Ames, Utah State UniversityFollow
J. L. Goodall
L. E. Band
V. Merwade
A. Couch
J. Arrigo
R. P. Hooper
D. W. Valentine
D. R. Maidment

Document Type

Presentation

Location

San Francisco, CA

Publication Date

12-9-2013

Abstract

HydroShare is an online, collaborative system being developed for sharing hydrologic data and models. The goal of HydroShare is to enable scientists to easily discover and access data and models, retrieve them to their desktop or perform analyses in a distributed computing environment that may include grid, cloud or high performance computing model instances as necessary. Scientists may also publish outcomes (data, results or models) into HydroShare, using the system as a collaboration platform for sharing data, models and analyses. HydroShare is expanding the data sharing capability of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System by broadening the classes of data accommodated, creating new capability to share models and model components, and taking advantage of emerging social media functionality to enhance information about and collaboration around hydrologic data and models. One of the fundamental concepts in HydroShare is that of a Resource. All content is represented using a Resource Data Model that separates system and science metadata and has elements common to all resources as well as elements specific to the types of resources HydroShare will support. These will include different data types used in the hydrology community and models and workflows that require metadata on execution functionality. HydroShare will use the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) to manage federated data content and perform rule-based background actions on data and model resources, including parsing to generate metadata catalog information and the execution of models and workflows. This presentation will introduce the HydroShare functionality developed to date, describe key elements of the Resource Data Model and outline the roadmap for future development.

Comments

Abstract IN11A-1510 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU

Recommended Citation

Tarboton, David G.; Idaszak, R.; Horsburgh, Jeffery S.; Ames, Daniel; Goodall, J. L.; Band, L. E.; Merwade, V.; Couch, A.; Arrigo, J.; Hooper, R. P.; Valentine, D. W.; and Maidment, D. R., "HydroShare: An online, collaborative environment for the sharing of hydrologic data and models (Invited)" (2013). Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 2615.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cee_facpub/2615