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Water and Environmental Hubsince 26.04.2010
Alex JosephExecutive Director
University of LethbridgeSeptember 2, 2010
Problem or Opportunity?
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STORE
MOVE
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DISTRIBUTE
PRODUCE
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If there’s all this data out there...
Why do I and my students spend 50-75% of time trying to find it?
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The Problem Until Now
• Data is exploding
• Data sets are large
• Data has been hard to move around
• Data is precious
• Ironically data is our first and last thought...
"Access to and sharing of water and land use information and knowledge remains one of the
most significant challenges to the development of responsible management policies and plans"
- University of Lethbridge President and Vice-chancellor Dr. Bill Cade
UNGEMS
AB Env
IP3/WC2N
Google Apps
Vision
To become the open source, web platform that connects water and environmental data with the tools and people needed to advance water research, integrated management, innovation,
and economic diversification.
We will try to do to
water data and information
What Google has done to text, images, video...
volume – accessibility – mashups - customization
if <this>
data explosion
web 2.0 + open data
high speed networks
cloud computing
</this> IS TRUE for WATER
then {benefit} =
> data open and accessible online
< time and $ spent in acquisition
> eresearch, innovation, economic diversification
UNGEMS GINIP3/WC2N ...
Apps
WEHUB
Mediators
Data
Approach
• Distributed: data stays with owners
• Scalable: exists in the cloud
• Seamless: acts as one virtual database
• Multi-access: multiple portals, tools
• Standards-based: use nat’l & int’l standardse.g. Groundwater ML (GWML)
WaterML
GeoSciML
Users
Industry
Government
AcademiaNGOs
General Public
Integrated Management
AgricultureEnergy Integrated Policy
EnvironmentEconomic
eResearch
RepositoryFlood/Drought
WPACs
EnvironmentEconomic
Apps
Civic Innovation
Citizen Science
Who
• Q2 2010Scanning
• Q3 2010Development
• Q3 2011 Public Launch
• Q3 2011Feedback & Refinement
INITIAL FUNDING
Alex Joseph
Executive Director - Water and Environmental Hub
Cybera Inc.
Direct: (403) 826-3915
Email: [email protected]
http://www.cybera.ca/project/water-and-environmental-hub
