Authors
Peter Becker, Abdul Alabri, and Jane Hunter (The University of Queenland)
Abstract
The Health-e-Waterways Project is a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Microsoft Research and the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQ-HWP) (a consortium of over 60 local government, state agency, universities, community and environmental organizations). The aim of the project is to develop a highly innovative framework and set of services to enable streamlined access to a collection of real-time, near-real-time and static datasets acquired through ecosystem health monitoring programs (EHMP) in South East Queensland.
This paper describes the underlying water information management system and Web Portal that we are developing to enable the sharing and integration of the high quality data and models for SEQ water resource managers. In addition we describe the interactive and dynamic ecosystem reporting services that we have developed and the WaterWiki that is being established to enable knowledge exchange between the online community of Queensland’s water stakeholders.
About the speaker
Jane is Professor of eResearch within the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. Her area of expertise is the application of semantic web technologies to the integration, organisation and preservation of research data and collections. She is currently a CI on numerous projects including: the Health-e-Waterways project, the Open Annotations Collaboration and the Aus-e-Lit project. She is also a member of the Academy of Science’s Committee for Data in Science and on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Multimedia, the Journal of Web Semantics and the International Journal of Digital Curation.