An integrated system for publishing environmental observations data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 879-888

  Horsburgh, Jeffery S ^a   Tarboton, David G ^a   Piasecki, Michael ^b   Maidment, David R ^c   Zaslavsky, Ilya ^d   Valentine, David ^d   Whitenack, Thomas ^d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabulary; Cyberinfrastructure; Data intensive science; Data model; Data publication; Semantic heterogeneity; Water resources data; Web services

Indexed keywords

CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA INTENSIVE; DATA PUBLICATIONS; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; WATER RESOURCES DATA;

DATA STRUCTURES; EQUIPMENT TESTING; MODELS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; THESAURI; VOCABULARY CONTROL; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 76749136424     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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