Advances in the HydroShare Community Platform Enabling the Integration of Water Data in Support of Hydrologic Research

Presentation IN32A-02 at 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/424998.

HydroShare is a domain specific data and model repository 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 will describe advances in the tools, methods and practices for data and model publication implemented in HydroShare.