The HydroShare community platform supporting water resources research

Presentation for Science Gateway Computational Institute Federal Agency Workshop, Washington DC, March 4, 2020

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 describes HydroShare and how it fits into the broader cyberinfrastructure software ecosystem where interoperability is important as a gateway for computation, and some of the challenges faced, from both an organizational and technical perspective.

2020年3月4日，于美国华盛顿特区举行的联邦机构研讨会中，Science Gateway 计算科学研究院呈现了一份报告。HydroShare是一个基于网络的 hydrologic 信息系统，由大学推进水文科学协会（Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc., 简称 CUAHSI）运营，旨在通过简化研究人员分享研究成果的过程，进而推动水文科学的发展。这一过程不仅包括科学出版物对研究的总结，还包括构建科学出版物的数据与模型。HydroShare接受来自任何个人的数据，并遵循可寻址、可访问、互操作和可重用（Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, 简称 FAIR）原则。该系统由两个功能集合构成：（1）用户可以在此共享和发布各种格式的数据与模型的存储库；（2）可以作用于 HydroShare 内容的工具（网络应用程序），支持基于网络的计算能力访问。这些功能共同推动我们向一个整合数据存储、组织、发现和分析的平台迈进，该平台通过网络应用程序（web apps）实现，并允许研究人员利用桌面之外的服务，以提高数据存储和操作的可靠性及可扩展性，同时增强他们的协作和结果再现能力。本次报告阐述了 HydroShare 的功能及其在更广泛的网络基础设施软件生态系统中的位置，其中互操作性作为计算的门户至关重要，并探讨了从组织和技术层面所面临的挑战。