mWater: a free and open-access platform for water data sharing and collaboration
mWater: a free and open-access platform for water data sharing and collaboration
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mWater：一个免费、开放的水数据共享和协作平台
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2015
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A. Feighery
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J. Feighery;Rachel Smith;Clayton Grassick;A. Feighery
几个国家最近完成了全国供水点的清查工作，以生成关于供水情况的全面统计数据，并支持更好地分配资源、进行长期规划和改善地方一级的维护。然而，大多数这些努力的结果是静态数据库，这些数据库往往存放在专有系统中，而且格式在国家或区域之间不具有可比性。此外，由于缺乏促进合作的技术以及缺乏用于监测和软件维护的资源，供水点的更新也很困难。在本报告中，我们介绍了一个免费和开放访问的水点数据库，旨在满足政府和非政府组织的需求，他们必须确保可靠的数据，同时允许当地组织和公众也提供更新。该数据库建立在mWater Surveyor平台上，并使用开源mWater移动的应用程序进行访问，该数据库借鉴了维基百科和Yelp等技术部门公司的概念，以创建公共水点页面，任何人都可以通过应用程序、门户网站或开放访问的应用程序编程接口（API）更新属性。其结果是建立了一个具有标准化措施和指标的平台，鼓励公共、私营和非政府组织部门之间的合作。我们将介绍水资源部门的几个不同组织，包括WaterAid、Water.org和世界银行，如何使用该系统共享水点数据，并与地方政府和机构合作开展监测工作。
Several countries have recently completed national inventories of water points to generate comprehensive statistics on access to water and to support better resource allocation, long-term planning, and improve maintenance at the local level. However, most of these efforts have resulted in static databases that tend to be housed in proprietary systems and formats that are not comparable between countries or regions. Furthermore, the updating of water points is difficult, both due to the lack of technologies that facilitate collaboration and the lack of resources for monitoring and software maintenance. In this presentation, we describe a free and open-access water point database that is designed to meet the needs of governments and NGOs who must ensure reliable data while simultaneously allowing local organizations and the general public to also provide updates. Built on the mWater Surveyor platform and accessed using the open-source mWater mobile app, this database borrows concepts from technology sector firms such as Wikipedia and Yelp to create public water point pages, with properties that can be updated by anyone through the app, web portal, or an open-access Application Programming Interface (API). The result is a platform with standardized measures and indicators that encourages collaboration between the public, private, and NGO sectors. We will describe how several different organizations in the water sector, including WaterAid, Water.org, and the World Bank, are using the system to share water point data and collaborate with local governments and institutions on monitoring efforts.