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Project Overview

Goals

The Health-e-Waterways project goals are to:

  • Assist decision-making by providing scientists, urban planners and policy-makers with fast, web-based access to data and models describing all water-related data,
  • Develop frameworks and services that provide streamlined access to real-time, near-real-time and static datasets with collaborative tools that will establish an online "community of practice", and
  • Unite Queensland's water information, making it universally accessible and useful; this will result in a geographically distributed network of hydrologic data sources and functions, integrated using web services, functioning as a seamless, integrated whole.

System architecture
An architecture diagram for the proposed system (click to enlarge)

Project Timeline

The Health-e-Waterways project will be developed in six phases:

  1. Identification and prioritisation of the key stakeholder user requirements, queries and datasets.
  2. Development of the common data models and ontologies to integrate both static and real-time data streams; visual, spatial and temporal data; legacy databases; and newly generated datasets.
  3. Design and implementation of the semantic interoperability layer on the scientific data server.
  4. Development of a Web-based querying, visualisation and presentation interface - that integrates GIS technologies (e.g., ARC Hydro) with VirtualEarth-type interfaces, ontology-based querys and SensorMaps - to display the latest integrated data sets through a mapping interface.
  5. Development of a secure Web Portal and WaterWiki that provides different levels of collaborative access to data, models, services, storage and compute power. Standardised authentication and access protocols will enforce controlled access to resources and software.
  6. Creation of a model registry and scientific workflow tools. This component will enable users to upload and share models as web services through a common model registry, link them using scientific workflows and execute them over grid computing infrastructure.

Further Information

To contact individuals involved in the project, use the contact details listed on the people page. For general information please send an email to info@health-e-waterways.org.