WaterML

Assessment

• Open License No

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Designed to be a general specification for hydrologic time-series in any setting

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Standard Working Group included public and private stakeholders such as Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australian CSIRO, KISTERS AG, UK CEH, and USGS

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  The OGC StandardsTracker tool allows change requests and comments to be submitted

• Extensions Yes

  WaterML is designed to allow encoding of data in a variety of exchange scenarios

• Human Readable No

  Complex XML schemas with complex hierarchy and cryptic element names

• Machine Readable Yes

  XML schema

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

  Schemas include a generationDate

• Metadata Yes

  Makes use of OGC's Observations & Measurements standards, Geography Markup Language