- Title
- Improving access to groundwater data using GroundWaterML2
- Creator
- Simons, Bruce; Nation, Eloise; Dahlhaus, Peter
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/101719
- Identifier
- vital:10694
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781922107497
- Abstract
- This paper describes the preliminary development and use in the Australian context of a standard designed to exchange groundwater related data. The storage and management of groundwater data is distributed across many agencies and organisations, in disparate databases and formats. Discovering, accessing, interpreting, reformatting and using this data can present considerable challenges for the end-user. Groundwater data interoperability consideration of the use of communication protocols to achieve technical interoperability, the use of common data models to achieve syntactic interoperability and the use of controlled vocabularies to achieve semantic interoperability. GroundWaterML2 is a Geography Mark-up Language (GML) application developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Hydro Domain Working Group. It is intended as a standard for the transfer of groundwater feature data, including data about water wells, aquifers, and related entities. The OGC initiated an interoperability experiment to develop and test the model for commercial, technical, scientific, environmental and policy use cases. CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and Federation University Australia contributed to the design of GroundWaterML2, and established separate OGC web services delivering data out of the National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) and Federation University Australia databases. These services delivered borehole location and construction details, downhole geology, hydrogeologic unit information, groundwater discharge properties, and groundwater fluid property observations. Bringing these services to production would allow users and clients, such as the 'Visualising Victoria's Groundwater' and 'Australian Groundwater Explorer' portals, to access data from multiple providers in a standard format. © 2015, Engineers Australia. All rights reserved.; The Art and Science of Water - 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2015
- Publisher
- Engineers Australia
- Relation
- 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The Art and Science of Water, HWRS 2015; Hobart, Tasmania; 7th-10th December 2015 p. 609-616
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015, Engineers Australia. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Groundwater; Groundwaterml2; Hydrogeology; Interoperability; Mark-up language; Open geospatial consortium
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