Strengthening the Culture of Data and Model Sharing: Update on HydroShare for CUAHSI Board of Directors, 7-27-20

HydroShare is a web based hydrologic information system operated by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI) to advance hydrologic science by enabling individual researchers to more easily and freely share products resulting from their research, not just the scientific publication summarizing a study, but also the data and models used to create the scientific publication. HydroShare accepts data from anybody, and supports Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles. It is comprised of two sets of functionalities: (1) a repository for users to share and publish data and models in a variety of formats, and (2) tools (web apps) that can act on content in HydroShare and support web-based access to compute capability. Together these move us towards a platform for collaboration and computation that integrates data storage, organization, discovery, and analysis through web applications (web apps) and that allows researchers to employ services beyond the desktop to make data storage and manipulation more reliable and scalable, while improving their ability to collaborate and reproduce results.

This presentation summarizes the functionality of HydroShare as a data and model sharing platform and poses some issues and questions for discussion by the CUAHSI board related to the governance and sustainability of HydroShare as well as coordination of CUAHSI informatics activities within the broader informatics and data and model publishing community.