eprintid: 36415
rev_number: 15
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datestamp: 2025-04-17 08:54:52
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creators_name: Bouguezzi, Safa
creators_name: Azmi, Elnaz
creators_name: Bischof, Balazs
creators_name: Boussaoud, Kaoutar
creators_name: Das, Goutam
creators_name: Dolich, Alexander
creators_name: Hassler, Sibylle K.
creators_name: Mälicke, Mirko
creators_name: Manoj J., Ashish
creators_name: Meyer, Jörg
creators_name: Streit, Achim
creators_name: Zehe, Erwin
title: V-FOR-WaTer: A Scalable Web Portal for Simplified Environmental Data Processing and Analysis
divisions: i-704000
pres_type: poster
abstract: The increase of data in volume and complexity creates significant challenges for researchers in fields such as environmental science and hydrology. These challenges include difficulties in finding relevant data, pre-processing and storing datasets, and using analytical tools. The V-FOR-WaTer web portal provides a platform that integrates tools for data pre-processing and analysis that address these issues. The main strength of this portal is its emphasis on allowing researchers to access heterogeneous data sources, execute workflows, and use predefined analysis tools. It reduces the risk of errors that could happen by handling data manually and increases the reproducibility of analysis steps. This ensures that the portal provides consistent structured datasets, allowing the community to download and use data more efficiently.

The workflows and predefined analysis tools are contextualized to a catchment area, as commonly done in hydrology. Using V-FOR-WaTer, available datasources are harmonized on spatial and temporal scales, while maintaining extensive metadata. The architecture of the portal is scalable since each instance of the tools is deployed in separate containers, which are accessible through the GeoAPI processes of the OGC standard. Therefore, integrating new tools is feasible without altering the established workflows.

As environmental datasets are complex, V-FOR-WaTer is designed to handle this heterogeneity. The V-FOR-WaTer portal empowers scientists to run tools on a wider variety of supported datasets by simplifying data processing and reducing the cost of comparing or validating tools in different catchments.
date: 2025
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00036415
collection: c-62
ppn_swb: 1923427377
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-364153
language: eng
bibsort: BOUGUEZZISVFORWATERA20250314
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
event_title: E-Science-Tage 2025
event_location: Universität Heidelberg
event_dates: 12.03.2025 - 14.03.2025
citation:   Bouguezzi, Safa ; Azmi, Elnaz ; Bischof, Balazs ; Boussaoud, Kaoutar ; Das, Goutam ; Dolich, Alexander ; Hassler, Sibylle K. ; Mälicke, Mirko ; Manoj J., Ashish ; Meyer, Jörg ; Streit, Achim ; Zehe, Erwin  (2025) V-FOR-WaTer: A Scalable Web Portal for Simplified Environmental Data Processing and Analysis.  [Conference Item]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36415/7/Bouguezzi_V-FOR-WATER_2025.pdf