Developing Guidance and templates resources

[ksonda]

I want to start strategizing on how we're going to be developing and publishing guidance.

I think the medium-term ambition should a resource like https://jsonld.com/, which is more focused on discrete templates for different resource types rather than the granular predicate-focused https://schema.org website. This would ideally include something like https://jsonld.com/json-ld-generator/. A reach goal would be to have a beta by July 2022 if WRRI grant starts July 2021 as Duke ORS seems to be headed. I like the nesting types, think it will be helpful for folks.

A shorter term goal could be a collection of templates in a templates directory here. Before making such templates, we should come up with a few resource types to start from. Heres some ideas below, but the wiki might be a better place to collaborate

• Monitoring Locations (mostly meant for data providers)

  • Atmospheric
  • weather station
  • precipitation gage
  • Surface
  • Point
    • continuous/time series sensor
    • discrete sample location
  • Aggregate reporting areas
    • hydrologic areas
    • administrative/political areas
    • other areas
  • Groundwater
  • wells
  • soil moisture sensors
  • Facilities
  • thermoelectric
  • hydroelectric
  • dams
  • bridges
  • points of diversion
  • points of use
  • artificial storage

• Reference Features (mostly meant for reference feature stewards)

  • Reference Locations
  • Hydrographic
    • pour points
    • confluences
  • Monitoring (inherits from Monitoring locations)
  • Cataloging Features
  • Administrative/Political Areas
  • Hydrologic areas (aquifers, watersheds/catchments/basins)
  • Other reporting areas
  • Features of Interest
  • Hydrologic
    • Stream reaches
    • water bodies
    • aquifers

[ksonda]

closing, as this work will take place in https://github.com/internetofwater/docs.geoconnex.us