Page Comparison

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To enable this user story, what is required is for all environmental features, and their monitoring stations, to have individual web “MetaResources” that link to each other and their data content when relevent. This way, both dedicated web crawlers and commercial search engines can build search indexes and metadata catalogs the same way they do for every other resource on the internet.

Two things that WDI can do to be plugged into such a system are:

1. Create and/or document structured meta-resources for items such as wells, stations, gauges, transects (anythign that data is generated about). These pages can be built by:

   1. inserting structured JSON-LD content into the headers of existing content such as https://maps.nmt.edu/maps/data/hydrograph/TO-0186

   2. creating such pages from scratch using tools such as PyGeoAPI, perhaps automating based off of calls to sensorthings/api/v1.0/Locations

   3. submitting geoJSON catalogs of locations to the geoconnex.us project implementation at info.geoconnex.us

2. Mint PIDs for them using the geoconnex.us framework, perhaps reserving the namespace https://geoconnex.us/nmwdi/.

Conceptual Demonstration from Visualizing Victoria’s Groundwater

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