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ClimDB/hydroDB: a web harvester and data warehouse approach to building a cross-site climate and hydrology database
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| Title: | ClimDB/hydroDB: a web harvester and data warehouse approach to building a cross-site climate and hydrology database |
| Authors: | Henshaw, Donald L.
Sheldon, Wade M.
Remillard, Suzanne M.
Kotwica, Kyle |
| Keywords: | Databases-portals
Metadata
Web services
Information technology and hydroscience |
| Issue Date: | 12-Sep-2006 |
| Publisher: | Michael Piasecki and College of Engineering, Drexel University |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/732 |
| Abstract: | Emerging environmental grand challenges demand new scientific approaches that require
collaboration and integration of long-term, multi-site data across broad spatial and temporal scales.
The LTER Network and USFS Experimental Forest Network sites collect extensive long-term
ecological, climatological, and hydrological data. While many of the LTER and USFS databases are
available on-line with adequate metadata, researchers find it problematic to locate, access, and
assemble data from multiple sites. LTER and USFS Information Managers developed
ClimDB/HydroDB (http://www.fsl.orst.edu/climhy/) as one approach to improving access to crosssite
data. As information systems at LTER and USFS are geographically decentralized and
autonomous, this approach relied upon scientific interest, organizational and personal commitment,
and participation incentives to build this integrated, cross-site information product.
ClimDB/HydroDB is a web harvester and data warehouse that provides uniform access to
common daily streamflow and meteorological data through a single portal. Participating sites
manage and control original source data within their local information systems, but routinely
contribute data to the warehouse. This approach establishes service development at the central node,
permitting rapid adaptation to changing needs, while maintaining low-overhead and technological
neutrality for data providers. The ClimDB/HydroDB approach is an effective bridge technology
between older, more rigid data distribution models and modern service-oriented architectures. |
| Description: | Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference theme was IT in the Field of HydroSciences. It included several mini-symposia that emphasized IT topics in HydroSciences and the yearly meeting of the metadata group of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange organization. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1434 |
| ISBN: | 0977447405 |
| Appears in Collections: | Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE 2006) [ISBN: 0977447405]
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