Core Values
WDI Implementation Team Core Values
Collaboration - We work as a team, and with our contributing agencies, to solve problems.
Service - We value outreach and education about New Mexico water data. We support contributing agencies when they ask for help.
Openness - We make our work products available to others.
Innovation - We prioritize new ways of managing and sharing data.
Sustainability - We work to find solutions that can be effective for the long term (see the Zen of WDI below for principles to support sustainability).
The Zen of NMWDI
(inspired by https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/ )
Duplication is wasteful, linking is better
Data first, Apps second
Share the data you collect
Explicit is better than implicit
Consistent is good, standardized is better, validation is essential
Be Robust. (Postel's Law: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.)
Follow the Robustness principal aka Postel’s Law:
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from othersAutomation. Automate process whenever possible. Always opt for automation of doing it by handle.
Services. Build services whenever possible. Always opt for making THE service first, then AN application