The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC, USA) has completed a Water Information Concept Development Study of the application of OGC Web Services standards in the domain of water information, specifically to investigate architectures and practices for cataloguing, discovering, and accessing selected water resources data from very large numbers of distributed datasets. David Maidment, director, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin and leader of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) project on Hydrologic Information Systems said, "The Concept Development Study was very useful to the CUAHSI team to set our work...
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