Collaborative Data and Model Sharing using HydroShare

How do you manage, track, and share hydrologic data and models within your research group? Do you find it difficult to keep track of who has access to which data and who has the most recent version of a dataset or research product? Do you sometimes find it difficult to share data and models and collaborate with colleagues outside your home institution? Would it be easier if you had a simple way to share and collaborate around hydrologic datasets and models? HydroShare is a new, web-based system for sharing hydrologic data and models with specific functionality aimed at making collaboration easier. Within HydroShare, we have developed new functionality for creating datasets, describing them with metadata, and sharing them with collaborators. In HydroShare we cast hydrologic datasets and models as “social objects” that can be published, collaborated around, annotated, discovered, and accessed. In this presentation, we will discuss and demonstrate the collaborative and social features of HydroShare and how it can enable new, collaborative workflows for you, your research group, and your collaborators across institutions. HydroShare’s access control and sharing functionality enable both public and private sharing with individual users and collaborative user groups, giving you flexibility over who can access data and at what point in the research process. HydroShare can make it easier for collaborators to iterate on shared datasets and models, creating multiple versions along the way, and publishing them with a permanent landing page, metadata description, and citable Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Functionality for creating and sharing resources within collaborative groups can also make it easier to overcome barriers such as institutional firewalls that can make collaboration around large datasets difficult. Functionality for commenting on and rating resources supports community collaboration and quality evaluation of resources in HydroShare.

This presentation was delivered as part of a Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) Cyberseminar in June 2016. Cyberseminars are recorded, and archived recordings are available via the CUAHSI website at http://www.cuahsi.org.

您所在的研究团队应如何管理、追踪与共享水文数据及水文模型？您是否曾因难以追踪谁有权限访问特定数据、谁持有某数据集或研究成果的最新版本而困扰？您是否也曾发现，与所属机构外的同事共享数据与模型并开展协作存在难度？若能通过简便方式围绕水文数据集与模型开展共享与协作，是否会让您的工作更轻松？
水文共享平台（HydroShare）是一款新型基于网页的系统，专为共享水文数据与模型而设计，配备旨在简化协作的专属功能。在水文共享平台中，我们开发了用于创建数据集、通过元数据（metadata）描述数据集并与合作者共享的全新功能。在水文共享平台框架内，我们将水文数据集与模型定义为可发布、协作、标注、发现与访问的“社交对象”。
在本次报告中，我们将讨论并演示水文共享平台的协作与社交功能，以及该系统如何为您、您的研究团队及跨机构合作者赋能全新的协作工作流。水文共享平台的访问控制与共享功能支持面向单个用户与协作用户组的公开与私密共享，让您可灵活控制谁能访问数据，以及在研究流程的哪个节点可进行访问。
水文共享平台可让合作者更便捷地对共享的数据集与模型进行迭代，在此过程中生成多个版本，并通过永久落地页、元数据描述与可引用数字对象标识符（Digital Object Identifier，DOI）发布这些版本。协作组内创建与共享资源的功能，还可帮助克服诸如机构防火墙等障碍——这类障碍往往会给大型数据集的协作带来困难。针对资源的评论与评分功能，可支持社区协作以及对水文共享平台内资源的质量评估。
本次报告是2016年6月举办的水文科学促进大学联盟有限公司（Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.，简称CUAHSI）网络研讨会的环节之一。网络研讨会的内容会被录制，存档的录制内容可通过CUAHSI官网http://www.cuahsi.org获取。