DRI Data Legacy
What is the DRI Data Legacy:
The purpose of the DRI data legacy is to publish the metadata and a selection of data from the Drought Research Initiative (DRI) regarding various aspects of drought in western Canada. This activity is described in the International GEO Workplan as follows:
Development
of a legacy
integrated drought data system.
In order to meet the needs of
stakeholders and other users for
information on
drought information, the Drought Research Initiative (DRI)
will
develop an data legacy system for consolidating regional
information about
drought. This data system will not only serve the needs of
the research
community but it will provide governments and the public with better
access to
information about drought phenomena based on a multi-year historic
drought that had major soci-economic
impacts in
western Canada. The system will integrate a number of
original
measurements taken for research purposes with other data bases and
analyses. The overall information system will rely on both
distributed
and centralized elements and will apply and test concepts of
interoperability, data sharing and the use of common standards for
interdisciplinary data sets.
Results:
The result will be a metadata information system that users can search for data relevant to drought. The centralized metadata will link to either centralized (publicly available data) or distributed data (connect the data user to the provider).
DRI Data Legacy Schematic, Phillip Harder (2009)