Publishing and Sharing Geospatial Water Information in HydroShare

Presentation for AWRA Geospatial Technologies Conference held Virtually August 4-13, 2020. This presentation on August 6. https://www.eventscribe.com/2020/AWRAGIS/

HydroShare (www.hydroshare.org) is a hydrology-domain specific data and model repository operated by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI). HydroShare’s goal is to advance hydrologic science by enabling researchers to more easily share data, model and workflow products resulting from their research, creating and supporting reproducibility of the results reported in scientific publications. It supports the growing call for open data that is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). HydroShare is comprised of two sets of functionalities: (1) a repository for users to share and publish data and models, collectively referred to as resources, in a variety of formats, and (2) web application tools that can act on content in HydroShare for computational and visual analysis. Together these serve as a platform for collaboration and gateway for computation that integrates data storage, organization, discovery, and analysis and that allows researchers to employ services beyond their desktop computers to make data storage and manipulation more reliable and scalable, while improving their ability to collaborate and reproduce results. This presentation will describe ongoing enhancements to HydroShare and some of the challenges being faced in its design and ongoing development. We report on efforts to support geospatial data types as aggregations of content within the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange standard resource data model used by HydroShare and describe how geospatial data services are enabled for public resources holding geospatial aggregations. This enables geospatial data in HydroShare to be consumed by third party web applications adding to the functionality supported by HydroShare as a content storage element within a software ecosystem of interoperating systems.