Hydroseek
An ontology-aided search engine for scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA.
Hydroseek creates a unified view over databases of agencies such us US Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commission of Water Quality, Chesapeake Information Management System and individual researchers removing the semantic, syntactic and information system heterogeneity barriers to improve the search experience and reduce time spent on data discovery and preparation prior to processing. Depending on the method of interaction (GUI or web services) and the function invoked output can be provided using CUAHSI WaterML1, GML Features2 or Microsoft Excel.
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Posted January 23rd, 2008 by kwalz
