HIDE -- A Web-based Hydrological Integrated Data Environment

Abstract

One of the challenging tasks in data management and interoperation is efficient data integration. Data integration in scientific community is affected by heterogeneities of the data and diversity of the participating data sources. We have developed a webbased data integration framework, HIDE, for hydrology datasets and data sources. The system is built on an extended XML mediator architecture with modular methodology and software engineering practices of simplicity, extensibility and flexibility.