GCWIN signs three year software and support contract for use of WILbUR
Grand County Water Information Network selects WILbUR for its water information storage and presentation needs.
Grand County Water Information Network (GCWIN) has signed a three year contract with Blue Otter Software for the use and support of Blue Otter Software’s WILbUR web application (Water Information Library and Unified Reference tool). WILbUR will be used to store, analyze, and make available to the public via the internet GCWIN’s over two million records of water quality information for the upper Colorado River basin.
The three year contract will allow GCWIN to make its more than 2 million records of water quality data available to the general public for the first time. WILbUR utilizes an advanced web interface to intuitively present large amounts of water data gathered by GCWIN to users. Currently this data includes river and lake water temperature, secchi measurements (clarity), Algae Toxin information, and other water quality data . WILbUR’s easy to use interface allows users to visually graph several data variables simultaneously. For more advanced analysis the data can be downloaded in standard formats.
The data itself is stored utilizing the industry standard CUASHI Observational Data Model (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Sciences, Inc.) In addition to the general web interface provided by WILbUR, the standard data model provided by CUAHSI ODM will allow GCWIN to make its data available direct to university researchers via CUAHSI’s WaterML standard web services. In future releases WILbUR will include an implementation of EPA’s WQX date exchange format, allowing GCWIN to easily submit data to state and government agencies.
Blue Otter Software will be releasing version 1.0 WILbUR by the end of October. For more information regarding WILbUR, please contact Randy Carver at Blue Otter Software. info@blueottersoftware.com, http://blueottersoftware.com/
Information regarding CUAHSI ODM and WaterML can be found at http://his.cuahsi.org/ and http://www.cuahsi.org/
Information regarding GCWIN can be found at http://www.gcwin.org/