Lurker Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 WaterML stands for Water Markup Language. It is a standardized dialect of XML designed for transmitting hydrological data over the internet via web services. The schema is defined by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI). WaterML 2.0 The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have created a Hydrology Domain Working Group to help steward the process of designing WaterML 2.0, which will be the official OGC standard for encoding hydrological data. A draft of WaterML 2.0 was released last July, and another version will be complete at the end of this month, which means we should have a new WaterML 2.0 OGC Standard in 2012! WaterML 2.0 will carry on the legacy of WaterML, which is the sharing of hydrologic observations data for the betterment of the global community. As it continues to gain international acceptance, including OGC certification, more governments will begin using it to publish their data. One day, we hope that the entire world’s hydro data will be accessible in a standard language. Check back to the Hydro Blog in January for news about the WaterML 2.0 OGC Standard. interesting :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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