Data Integration

These days there's no shortage of data, but there’s huge variability and duplication – and masses of data are of limited use without an ability to make accurate forecasts and predictions, or meaningful reports.

Currently, information about our water resources is maintained by many different agencies to varying standards - and with generally restrictive access arrangements. There are major variations in data specification, format and storage. Various jurisdictions are almost certainly developing their own technical solutions in the absence of agreed national standards, potentially exacerbating the problem.

WRON does not require centralisation; the data does not have to reside within a single agency. But it does require each data ‘custodian’ to agree to participate.

An ‘integration contract’ may be signed whereby their data is made ‘visible’ on the internet, in a format that is ‘compliant’ with an agreed data specification. Contact us now to be a part of WRON.