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The Texas Water Digital Library
David R. MaidmentDirector, Center for Research in Water Resources
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, May 17, 2010
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Texas Water IssuesFlooding
Drought
Water Quality
Environmental health
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Texas Water Digital Infrastructure
Texas Water Digital Library
Texas Water Data Library
Texas Water Journal
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Texas Water Digital Infrastructure
Texas Water Digital Library
Texas Water Data Library
Texas Water Journal
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The Texas Water Digital Library: People
• TDL: John Leggett, Mark McFarland, Ryan Steans• TAMU TWRI: BL Harris, Ralph Wurbs, Kathy Wythe,
Leslie Jordan• TAMU Libraries: Holly Mercer, Scott Phillips, Sandy
Tucker• TTU WRC: Ken Rainwater• TTU Libraries: Matthew Mckinney• UT CRWR: David Maidment, Eric Hersh• UT Libraries: Amy Rushing, Robyn Rosenberg
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Texas Digital Library Members
Many of these universities also have a Water Research Center
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Digital Archiving of Theses, Dissertations and Reports
since 1994 at CRWR
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Incorporated into UT Digital Repository, 2010
UT Austin
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Federated with water reports from Texas A&M
College Station
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and with reports from Texas Tech University
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Texas water research centers are individually embracing digital libraries
BL Harris Ken Rainwater David Maidment
currently hosting technical reports, project data, outreach publications, theses and dissertations
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“A digital water library will link and make available the vast amount of information, research and data that has been and is continuing to be developed by water resource researchers in Texas. Providing information digitally is imperative for the future, and this library is definitely going to bring critical and needed information together for everyone's use.”
- B.L. Harris, acting director of TWRI
Collaborating to form the Texas Water Digital Library
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The Texas Water Digital Library
• Mission: to be a centralized, online location for the research and works of university and other water resource entities in Texas, effectively federating water research currently housed at many universities across Texas
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Texas Water Digital Infrastructure
Texas Water Digital Library
Texas Water Data Library
Texas Water Journal
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Texas Water Digital Infrastructure
Texas Water Digital Library
Texas Water Data Library
Texas Water Journal
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AWRA GIS in Water Resources ConferenceOrlando, FL, March 29, 2010
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Stored at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, SDSC
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11 services4,816 variables15,645 sites645,565 series23,272,357 records
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CUAHSI Online Data Grid
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An enormous data storage system
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UserWith iRODS Client
searches Catalog to find and get Data
Users can search for, access, add, move, annotate, analyze, share data, and automate administrative tasks.
Accessing Data in iRODS System
“Gets data to user.”
“I need a file!”
“Finds the data.”
Data ServerDisk, Tape, Database,
Filesystem, etc.
iRODS MetadataCatalog
Keeps track of data
iRODS Data System
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Texas Water Digital Infrastructure
Texas Water Digital Library
Texas Water Data Library
Texas Water Journal
How do these components connect?
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…referencing an academic study…
https://repositories.tdl.org/twdl-ir/handle/2152/7029
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…linked to data
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a professional study…
https://repositories.tdl.org/twdl-ir/handle/123456789/153
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https://repositories.tdl.org/twdl-ir/handle/123456789/153
…linked to reports and
presentations…
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…along with models & data
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TCDL & TWDL goals and challenges moving forward
• The digital library process is more ‘formed’ than the data process– Workflow for submitting and registering data and
documents– ‘Versioning’ of information: temporary/living versus
permanent/archived• External users and providers (e.g. consultants)– access and intellectual property issues
• What is the role of informal student projects compared to formal documents?
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Some Questions
• How do we understand the relation between a Digital Library and a Data Library?– Are they the same thing?
• How do we connect digital libraries of different organizations– CUAHSI and TWDL?
• What is the meaning of a repository of data services as compared to data files?